Word: mikhail
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MARSAXLOKK BAY, Malta--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev wrapped up two days of superpower summitry yesterday, claiming strides toward a new era of East-West peace but underscoring differences that linger at the end of a 45-year Cold...
...invisible destruction in Eastern Europe is worse than the visible devastation wrought by war. Managerial talents have been blighted by a half-century under an economic system that practiced pick- a-number pricing, taught enterprises to hoard inventory and rewarded them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests: all these come fairly naturally. Instilling entrepreneurial spirit and managerial efficiency on any level higher than selling lemonade...
MARSAXLOKK BAY, Malta--President bush urged Mikhail S. Gorbachev on the eve of their super-power summit yesterday to help mold "a future free of both tyranny and fear." The Soviet leader concluded a historic Vatican visit with a pledge of new religious freedoms back home...
...recent events were clearly not an outpouring of nationalism, but a celebration of freedom. The destruction of the wall was not seen as the sign of regaining German strength (after all, it is Mikhail Gorbachev, not Germany, who was largely responsible for the dramatic changes), but the reunion with relatives, old and new friends was celebrated. Contrast this, for example, to the Anschluss of Austria or the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, where people cheered at parading tanks and soldiers. I think the difference could hardly be more striking...
Whatever the reason (and now is not the time to explore those reasons) enormous credit must be given to Mikhail Gorbachev and the current leadership of the Soviet Union for helping to bring about an extraordinary, non-violent revolution which is forcing citizens of the Soviet Union to rethink, in almost every way, the basic foundations of their...