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This month, Mikhail Gorbachev has consolidated his control of the Soviet government. He has cracked down on nationalist movements in Lithuania and Latvia. He has proposed suspending a five-month-old law guaranteeing free speech, claiming that the ongoing crisis requires a renewed commitment to "objectivity...
...seeks to rightly censure Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for his violent actions against the people of Latvia and Lithuania, the staff opinion contrasts that wrong against the apparent "right" of a U.S. military offensive in the Middle East. In doing so, the staff promotes a "New World Order" that is no more "new" or "just" than the one President Bush has proclaimed...
Whether Gorbachev actually gave the order to use force in Lithuania, or can plausibly deny a direct role, is irrelevant. He was responsible. It is his policy to refuse demands for sovereignty and independence that have arisen in non-Russian regions and Russia itself. It has been his practice, when he feels it necessary, to use military force to crush them. Besides, if Gorbachev was not responsible, does that mean he has lost control to the conservatives in the army and the KGB and is being forced to front for their demands for order? U.S. analysts doubt that. "Gorbachev...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda carried a front-page picture of a body under a tank and the question "Tbilisi, Baku, Vilnius, what next?" Under the headline BLOODY SUNDAY, Moscow News published a statement from 30 well-known intellectuals, including two of Gorbachev's most important former economic advisers, labeling events in Lithuania "a crime...
...immense powers on paper but little ability to rule in the separatist regions. Legvold predicts that "Gorbachev will try to sit on these people through ((Defense Minister)) Yazov. He wants it to be with as little recrimination from abroad and as little mayhem in the area as possible." After Lithuania, any republic that does not knuckle under to Moscow could feel the fist next...