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Even in their most confidential communications with the Kremlin, U.S. policymakers and diplomats have been careful not to make this pitch too explicit. They are afraid the KGB may make mischief between Washington and Bonn by leaking any cable or memorandum that reveals Americans to be exploiting Soviet anxiety about Germany. There is nothing cryptic about the apprehension of the British, French, Czechoslovaks and Poles as they watch the juggernaut of German unification. The Bush Administration keeps hoping the Kremlin will therefore not object too strenuously as the U.S. helps sponsor the emergence of a new Germany at the center...
...their communications with Managua, the Soviets were always subtle. With the crisis over, the helicopters that were withheld in December were sent to Nicaragua at the end of January. Moscow, however, assured Washington that they were equipped for civilian use only. In explaining the Kremlin's decision to send the choppers after all, a Soviet academic at a Moscow think tank offers a lesson in the application of pressure. "To maintain one's influence in a situation," he says, "it is often necessary -- in fact it is usually necessary -- to both give and withhold. Especially in Latin America, where every...
...going to pile everything into one interview?" he joked after more than an hour of conversation. We did meet again. Last week, on the eve of his summit meeting with George Bush, Gorbachev invited Time Warner editor-in-chief Jason McManus and five TIME staff members to his Kremlin office for a tour d'horizon that lasted an hour...
...session with Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 -- is the Moscow bureau's Felix Rosenthal. "Although Gorbachev in 1985 was a vivid contrast to Brezhnev -- young, smiling, talkative -- you could still sense a successful provincial party boss," he says. "Gorbachev in 1990 is polished, quite at home in his Kremlin office with the modern furniture that fits his image...
Even by his standards, it was an extraordinary week for the man in the spare, spacious office on the third floor of the Council of Ministers building inside the Kremlin. Any one of the setbacks that befell him between Monday and Friday would have been a severe test of his ingenuity and stamina. His attempt to revive a stagnant economy seemed only to be provoking fresh resistance from populace and parliament alike. Just as the war of nerves between the Kremlin and secessionists in Lithuania entered a new and delicate phase, Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly faced a challenge to his power...