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Appealing for peace, Gorbachev seemed to take sides with the Moldavians, saying, "We have to give separatists a real fight here." But the violence showed just how tenuous a hold the Kremlin has on its splintering empire. As ethnocentrism sweeps through the land, even minorities as small as the 150,000-strong Gagauz are seeking self-rule. And Russians, who once enjoyed colonial privileges in the outlying Soviet republics, now find themselves on the defensive as nationalism prevails...
Many Russians living in the republic believe the Moldavian government wants to reunify with Romania. Most Moldavian leaders emphatically deny this, and few observers believe the Kremlin would tolerate it. But Alexandru Moshanu, chairman of the Moldavian parliament, said last week that the future of the Soviet Union may hold only a choice between "chaos and a new dictatorship." If so, Moldavians may yet decide that they have no alternative but to try to erase the border with Romania...
...question remained: How to get there? Though the latest presidential plan is the first to bear Gorbachev's imprimatur, it capped a series of four previous Kremlin formulas to be brought out and then discarded since last December like so many bottles of vodka at a wild bash. What especially angered Yeltsin and other crash reformers was their feeling that Gorbachev had betrayed them, first by saying he approved of the 500-Day Plan devised by a team under presidential councilor and economist Stanislav Shatalin, then by opting for a much vaguer, slower schedule outlined by Gorbachev adviser Abel Aganbegyan...
...Shatalin program on Nov. 1 and wait for Gorbachev's plan to fail -- an outcome Yeltsin predicted would happen within six months at most. Carrying out Shatalin's full plan in Russia was evidently doomed by Gorbachev's decision to pull back from the proposal as long as the Kremlin would retain broad authority over the money supply, spending and other central controls...
...Grigori Yavlinsky, a young economist who helped draft the 500-Day Plan. He offered to quit on the spot, arguing that the federal government's higher prices for grain procurement would lead to an inflation spiral. Yeltsin phrased that concern more colorfully not long ago. Trying to reconcile Kremlin caution with the market zeal of the republics, he said, is like "mating a hedgehog with a snake...