Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Potomac became more appreciative during the summer, but what Marxists (there are still a few left in Moscow) call the "objective realities" of U.S. policy remained pretty much unchanged. A few days before the Pentagon cuts, an adviser to Gorbachev seemed to be expressing his boss's exasperation: "Our leader is presiding, with incredible boldness and at incredible risk, over the perestroika not just of our own country, but of the entire international order, and your leader keeps saying, 'Thanks, good luck, and have a nice day.' What do we have to do for you Americans to do something...
...Milos Jakes, the beginning of the end came early last summer. In a series of private exchanges between the Czechoslovak Communist Party leader and Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers, the Soviet President made clear that his own internal situation demanded a repudiation of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. If Jakes, 67, did not want to be undercut by the Soviet move, he would have to act -- and act soon. An agreement between Moscow and Prague was struck. Come October, Jakes would convene a Central Committee meeting and expel all Politburo members tainted by the 1968 invasion -- except himself. After appointing...
...Strougal and his allies gradually broke down the resistance of Jakes holdouts, including trade-union representatives, while wooing the bloc from the Slovak republic, which was trying to boost its own influence. In exchange, the reformist camp had to make three concessions. They allowed two hard-liners, Prague party leader Miroslav Stepan and trade-union boss Miroslav Zavadil, to keep their Politburo seats. The five Slovak members of the Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members...
...toughest part of the President's message concerned Central America. Bush told Gorbachev: If the Nicaraguan Sandinistas have told you they are not supplying weapons to El Salvador's rebels, they are misleading you. He warned the Soviet leader not to miscalculate how seriously Washington regarded the escalating violence in Latin America...
Gorbachev seemed a bit stunned that Bush's overall proposals were so detailed and specific, not to mention numerous. After sitting silent during most of the lengthy presentation, the Soviet leader looked the President in the eye and told him, "I have heard you say that you want perestroika to succeed, but frankly I didn't know this. Now I know. Now I have something tangible...