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Until the mid-'80s, the root cause of East-West tension -- the repressive, predatory nature of Soviet communism -- was nonnegotiable. The old men in the Kremlin refused to brook "interference in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R.," and they would not accept meaningful constraints on Soviet international behavior. That left little to talk about, except how many warheads should be allowed to dance on the head of an intercontinental ballistic missile...
With each passing day, this vision of the apocalypse becomes more archaic. The Kremlin's allies, if they can still be called that, are not only abandoning communism; they are demanding the removal of Soviet troops. A delegation from Moscow was in Hungary last week and will be in Czechoslovakia this week to discuss a specific timetable, possibly before the end of the year. The Soviets told the Poles that they are prepared to talk about troop reductions there. Torn by internal dissent and economic failure, the Soviet Union is in the process of unilaterally reducing its army...
...unanimously think it has become obsolete. It has no meaning," Central Committee member Vladimir P. Anishchev told reporters who gathered outside the Kremlin's Spasky Gate to await news. The session was closed to journalists...
However, Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, sharply disputed the claim that Kremlin conservatives cannot musterthe strength to overthrow the Communist Partyleader...
...grip on power was solid because of his political skills: he purged large numbers of his political opponents, as well as the deadwood, at the top of the party. After more than four years of such culling, it seemed to Sovietologists that Gorbachev could not be toppled by traditional Kremlin plotting of the type that ended Nikita Khrushchev's reign in 1964. That analysis leaves open the question of a coup by the security forces, the army and the KGB. There has never been an army coup in Russia or the Soviet Union, but the experts are no longer ruling...