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Then there is what might be called Bush's lack of moral imagination and empathy. After the massacre in Tiananmen Square, he said, "This is not the time for an emotional response." In this case and others, like Lithuania, there have been realpolitik reasons -- perhaps sufficient reasons -- for not cutting off the offending regime. But Bush's repeated cool response to distant suffering and struggles gives the impression that at some level he just doesn't get it. He may give his coat to a beggar on the street -- noblesse oblige -- but his sleep is not disturbed by things...
...freeze has broken the ice in Lithuania. Four months after breaking away from Moscow, the Supreme Council voted to put a 100-day hold on independence in return for the start of negotiations...
...republic's desire for "sovereignty." Gorbachev countered by ordering up a commission to draft a new treaty that would establish a loose federation among the 15 Soviet republics, providing each of them with economic "sovereignty." In a show of goodwill, he partly eased the natural-gas embargo against breakaway Lithuania. After meeting with the leaders of all the republics for five hours last week, Gorbachev seemed to have dampened his antagonist's fervor. Said Yeltsin: "We shook hands, and we met each other halfway . . . We agreed that Russia cannot survive without the entire country and the country cannot survive without...
That approach is particularly surprising since Soviet-bashing no longer commands wide support among voters. Only a fourth of those who responded in an April poll for TIME and CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman said the U.S. "should pressure the Soviet Union to give Lithuania its independence." Almost two-thirds judged the issue to be "none of our business...
...reason for their existence is to promote hostility toward the Kremlin. Other legislators who have no nostalgia for the cold war nonetheless think Bush has tied U.S. policy too closely to Gorbachev's political survival, and thus made concessions unwarranted by Soviet weakness. Bush invited such criticism by linking Lithuania and trade relations in May, then unlinking them at the summit without getting Soviet concessions in return...