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...unify. But the rest of the world still has a say in how unification affects NATO, European integration and Soviet reform. George Bush's position is simple and bold. He wants to keep NATO in Europe, a unified Germany in NATO, U.S. troops in Germany, a reformer in the Kremlin and a conservative in the German chancellorship...
...armed force of people with an intense allegiance to one person." That person is Prophet, also known as Guru Ma, who claims as many as 30,000 followers around the world. Lately she has been telling them that the apparent warming of U.S.-Soviet relations is a Kremlin ruse designed to get Americans to lower their guard. She warns that the world is entering a "dangerous period" in March and April. Or, as her astrologer and spokesman Murray Steinman puts it, "We're at a general trend of accelerated negative karma...
...that is what the Kremlin means, it will have to say so. Thus far, its plan talks of "economic independence" for the republics, but also insists on "the center operating at the macro level." Does this imply a federation, with a central government? A confederation, with no central authority? An economic community? Gorbachev will have to decide whether he favors revising the present Union through legislation or dismantling the whole Soviet structure by writing a new constitution. He has taken for himself the chairmanship of the congress's Constitutional Commission and set a one-year deadline for drafting...
Pamyat, a hodgepodge of rabid Russian nationalist groups, some operating in secret, spins out tales of a historic Jewish-Masonic conspiracy against Russia. The organization looks for Masonic symbols everywhere, even in the five-pointed red stars atop Kremlin towers. A "de-Zionization" program, attributed to Pamyat, urges that Jews and their relations not be allowed to acquire degrees, join the Communist Party or hold elective office until their numbers in the ruling elite are brought into proportional balance with the population at large...
...U.S.S.R. as a country has no future. Each of the existing worlds within the empire longs for nothing less than sovereignty. But the Soviet leadership is unable to shake its belief that a fundamental revision of our national system would result in anarchy and disintegration. In reality, the Kremlin is actually pushing the republics toward secession. The Baltic states have found themselves forced to move in that direction. This tendency could affect the other republics as well unless we come up with the only possible alternative to secession: sovereign and politically independent national states...