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...Crisis has been that President Kennedy "stood eyeball to eyeball" with Khrushchev and that "the other guy blinked." By placing a naval blockade around Cuba and by gradually increasing the military pressure, Kennedy and his advisers took the Soviets to the brink of nuclear war and forced the Kremlin to back down. The missiles were removed at no cost to the United States and a period of detente soon began between the superpowers. Or so the popular theory goes...
...effort to blame former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev for the country's continuing economic problems. Brezhnev cronies and relatives are among those implicated; Son-in-Law Yuri Churbanov could face the death penalty if convicted on charges that he accepted $1 million in bribes while serving as the Kremlin's First Deputy Interior Minister...
...aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Kremlin insisted it would not back away from its ambitious plan to quintuple nuclear power output by the year 2000. But officials underestimated the fears created by the accident. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Party youth newspaper, disclosed last week that the government had made an unprecedented decision to scrap construction of an atomic power plant in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar (cost so far: $43 million) simply because residents were adamantly against it. Krasnodar is not alone. The article said residents of some two dozen localities are "fiercely" protesting atomic energy stations...
Increasingly, the signs seemed to point to a Soviet exit from Afghanistan before the end of 1988. Kremlin officials made no secret of their desire to bring home their 115,000 troops. Both the Soviet-backed regime of Afghan Leader Najibullah and the government of Pakistan, which supports the mujahedin rebels, predicted that the Geneva negotiations expected to resume in March under United Nations auspices would be the "last round" leading to a final agreement. But a sharply worded declaration from the guerrillas, blasting the Geneva talks and casting serious doubt on their willingness to accept a compromise settlement, dimmed...
...economy the only thing Gorbachev seems determined to change. Last week he dramatically demonstrated his commitment to glasnost by meeting with Physicist Andrei Sakharov. It was the first time a Soviet leader had ever encountered so prominent a dissident face to face. The exchange took place at the Kremlin, where Gorbachev was receiving members of an international peace and human rights group. Sakharov, whom Gorbachev had freed from internal exile in 1986, handed the Soviet leader a list of 200 political prisoners whose release he sought. Apparently impressed with Gorbachev's openness, Sakharov later declared, "This kind of leader...