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...helped, finally, that Reagan turned out to be right about so many things. He cut tax rates, in the teeth of predictions that the sky would fall, and it's still over our heads. For half a century he disliked communism -- no more, it turns out, than Chinese students, Lithuanian voters or many of Mikhail Gorbachev's advisers...
During the debate, Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene warned that relief must be found from the economic sanctions imposed in April by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev: "We have to do something. We have to take a risk." The resolution set a time limit and stipulated that it could be extended or terminated only by the Lithuanians. These conditions finally brought the more cautious President Vytautas Landsbergis on board and made a lifting of the blockade possible...
...number of Congressmen say they support any nation's right to self-determination. Their lofty concern apparently does not extend to Quebec, Slovakia, Palestine or other areas where minorities are seeking nationhood, perhaps because U.S. voter rolls do not include large numbers of French- Canadians, Slovaks or Palestinians. Though Lithuanian Americans have been highly vocal, they are small in number and there is no organized Lithuanian lobby in the U.S. But millions of Americans of East European ancestry nurse a long-standing and understandable grudge against Moscow...
...indeed playing a political game, then we may be in for a difficult time." The next day at a press conference, Yeltsin elaborated on the details of his program of sovereignty and economic reform, thus ensuring further clashes with Gorbachev. He increased the tension another notch by meeting with Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and promising to "cooperate fully with the Baltic republics...
Finally, Gorbachev does not share Bush's conviction about the importance of personal relationships in foreign affairs. The Soviet President's policy is not immune to the influence of likes and dislikes -- far from it. The deadlock between Moscow and Vilnius has been worsened by Gorbachev's distaste for Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, whom he calls the "musician" (that was in fact Landsbergis' initial profession, but Gorbachev uses the term scathingly to imply a bumbling amateurism in politics). In summitry, however, the Soviet President's motto could be the Russian proverb "Sluzhba sluzhboi, druzhba druzhboi" (Business is business, friendship...