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Sheehy has the sort of drive and self-confidence that must have impressed her gloomy Soviet hosts. Like a laptop Barbara Walters, she attempts to bag "top" officials, those with "ultimate power." But the Big Guy won't show, and the Kremlin's First Lady, says Sheehy, "has never consented to an interview...
...brusque 15-minute speech, he proposed "an urgent, fundamental reorganization of executive power in the center by subordinating it to the President." Gorbachev called for vesting the Federation Council, an advisory body made up of republican heads of state, with broad powers to coordinate relations between the Kremlin and the republics. Citing a nationwide disintegration of law-and-order, he suggested creating both a Presidential Security Council to oversee law enforcement and an executive task force to combat organized crime...
...economic decrees; in fact, he added, the Supreme Soviet should enact a moratorium on all independence-oriented legislation. But the idea that any such ban would be obeyed is so farfetched as to call into question whether Gorbachev understands how far the republics have broken away from the Kremlin...
...Soviet Union's potential dissolution. Perhaps this Gorbachev order will be grudgingly obeyed. But many of the edicts that he has been issuing under a law enabling him, in theory, to govern virtually by decree amount to the unheard roars of a paper tiger. In some cases the Kremlin and the republics have been playing out a ritualized farce. The center, as it is now called, issues a Gorbachev decree; one or more republics declare it to be null and void on their territory; Gorbachev issues a second order declaring that these null-and-void declarations are themselves null...
...Russia can negotiate formal treaties with its autonomous republics in a month, as planned, Yeltsin will have stolen another march on Gorbachev. The Kremlin had hoped to have a Treaty of Union spelling out new relationships between the republics and the center ready by the end of the year. That looks increasingly unlikely. Unwilling to accept the degree of central power the Kremlin wants, the republics are negotiating with one another and forming loose groupings of their own. The Russians have already signed cooperation agreements with eight republics and plan to conclude negotiations with the remaining...