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...assessment, President Bush and I have come to trust each other more since our discussions at Malta. Contacts that followed between the Kremlin and the White House support this conclusion...
...came the men with microphones and blazing lights. In the middle of it all strode the politician they were focusing on, trailing a small group of aides. Had the scene been set in the U.S. Capitol, it would have been run-of-the-mill stuff. But this was the Kremlin, and the man doing the politicking was President Mikhail Gorbachev. As he moved along, he buttonholed Deputies of the new parliament of the Russian federation, urging them to preserve national unity by electing his candidate to the post of chairman...
Even in the surprising era of demokratizatsiya, the sight of the head of government lobbying in the corridors of the Grand Kremlin Palace is an extraordinary spectacle. But these are extraordinary times for Gorbachev: at stake are not only his reforms and his own political health but also the survival of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
Under the circumstances, Gorbachev's flashes of frustration as he stalked the Kremlin anterooms in the glare of TV lights were understandable. "In politics," he grumbled, "the public doesn't accept pluralism. Perestroika depends on public opinion, and it is conservative." But Gorbachev's candidate for the presidency of the Russian federation, Alexander Vlasov, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and prime minister of the federation, hardly seems the < stirring leader needed to carry out his boss's vision. When Vlasov delivered an hour-long report last week, it was so plodding that not even Gorbachev seemed to be listening...
...effectiveness has disintegrated. The Soviet army is significantly weakened by ethnic strife and insubordination in the ranks. (At the NATO meeting in Brussels last week, a senior defense expert disclosed that the Soviet army mobilized an entire division in its Moscow barracks last February as a signal to the Kremlin against further military cuts.) Warning time in advance of a hypothetical Soviet land attack across Europe could be as much as six months to a year, according to some intelligence estimates. In short, the need for large standing forces in Europe has been significantly reduced...