Word: mandelbaum
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...economy worsens, says Dimitri Simes, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yeltsin must do more than agitate to throw the bums out. "While people still like him, will still vote for him," says Simes, "they're losing confidence that he can make a difference." But Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, maintains that though Yeltsin's reform ideas may not be detailed, he has as much of a program as anyone in Soviet politics, including Gorbachev...
...Baltics and asked the Soviets to "refrain from further violence" or face possible curtailment of economic programs. While there are other reasons to postpone it, the White House said last week that the summit scheduled for Moscow next month is "clearly up in the air" after Vilnius. Says Michael Mandelbaum, director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations: "My guess is that the Bush Administration will do as little as it decently can, for geopolitical reasons...
...support for war while minimizing the loss of allied life. Some believe maintaining multinational solidarity requires an ultimatum to Saddam: Cave in by such and such a date, or we come at you with everything we've got. Sounds good, but . . . "The problem with a clear warning," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy professor, "is that it could cause Iraq to strike pre-emptively, and pre-emption is a card we may want to play ourselves. For Saddam this is World War III. He wins or he dies. If he thinks it's coming, why wouldn...