Word: kremlins
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...caution of the Old Guard is giving way to the impatience of younger Estonians. They are gambling that the economic crisis of the U.S.S.R. is so severe and so all absorbing for the Kremlin -- and that preserving the goodwill of the outside world is so crucial -- that not even hard-liners will have the stomach for a crackdown. For a while, the Balts may settle for some kind of semiautonomous status in a far looser Soviet confederation. But in these dizzying times, "semi" may become a euphemism for almost total, and "a while" may be a matter...
...least as clever as they are bold in defining sovereignty. Moscow is going to have to adopt an increasingly imaginative and elastic definition of what it means to be a republic of the U.S.S.R. And American policymakers ought to acknowledge that the kinds of people it once considered Kremlin quislings are now champions of the goal that the U.S. itself has advocated for nearly a half-century...
...didn't want to miss something, something that I might get better firsthand from Mr. Gorbachev." The Soviet President has been less patient. In late October, Gorbachev said privately that for months he had been exasperated with the Bush Administration's slow and uncertain response to the shifts in Kremlin policy. He was beginning to suspect, he said, that Washington believed if it waited long enough, the Soviet Union would simply disappear...
...probabilty of nabbing any high-level spooks, the FBI nonetheless took the program seriously. So seriously, in fact, that when librarians began to criticize the program as an unwarranted infringement on the privacy of patrons, the FBI was convinced that that criticism must have originated in the Kremlin...
...date, the FBI has found nothing confirming their suspicions of the librarians. Perhaps the agency, convinced that the Kremlin must be behind it somehow, is now investigating the agents who failed to find anything on the librarians. At this rate, the FBI just might find the root of their troubles after...