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...hard line now developing in Congress? Part of the explanation is that some conservatives would be left with little to do since one reason for their existence is to promote hostility toward the Kremlin. Other legislators who have no nostalgia for the cold war nonetheless think Bush has tied U.S. policy too closely to Gorbachev's political survival, and thus made concessions unwarranted by Soviet weakness. Bush invited such criticism by linking Lithuania and trade relations in May, then unlinking them at the summit without getting Soviet concessions in return...
...SHILLELAGH FOR HER THOUGHTS. Margaret Thatcher, an early and ardent supporter of Gorbachev's, continued to lead cheers during her visit to the Kremlin last week, and even urged top military leaders there to back Gorbachev to the hilt. But behind her public exhortations lie deep doubts about his chances. She sees the emergence of Boris Yeltsin as a particular reason for pessimism; she regards him as an unguided missile, and has privately characterized him in a phrase that could raise hackles both in the U.S.S.R. and closer to home. "He is like an Irishman," she says...
Trade unexpectedly turned out to be the touchiest subject of all. In Moscow last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Secretary of State James Baker that the Kremlin understood American reluctance to sign a comprehensive trade deal while Moscow continues its economic embargo of Lithuania. But Gorbachev last week would not let the subject drop. In a sharp exchange with congressional leaders Friday morning, he expressed particular irritation that the U.S. still denies most-favored-nation trade status to the U.S.S.R., though it has just renewed that status for China despite last year's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators...
...Bush yielded. He told Gorbachev he would sign a trade treaty but would not send it to Congress until the U.S.S.R. passed the emigration law. He added that he expected Gorbachev to show the same understanding of U.S. concerns about Lithuania that the White House was showing for the Kremlin's economic needs, but apparently got no explicit promise in return...
None of the above, replied the Soviets. As Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to the U.S., once put it, "Gorbachev has only one hobby: perestroika." The visitor from the Kremlin politely declined to go to Kennebunkport at all, or even to stay overnight at Camp David. The most he would agree to was eight hours of informal talks with Bush there Saturday. Still, the leaders and their aides did shed coats and ties in Maryland, and Gorbachev told a few of the salty jokes that Bush enjoys. The President took Gorbachev on a tour in a golf cart, and later...