Word: mikhail
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...neither Reagan nor the Pope could anticipate the accession of a Soviet leader like Mikhail Gorbachev, the father of glasnost and perestroika; his efforts at reform unleashed powerful forces that spun out of his control and led to the breakup of the Soviet Union. The Washington-Vatican alliance "didn't cause the fall of communism," observes a U.S. official familiar with the details of the plot to keep Solidarity alive. "Like all great and lucky leaders, the Pope and the President exploited the forces of history to their own ends...
...very far from anything new here. During 1991, in fact, TIME, its editors, writers, correspondents and photographers received 83 such accolades, more than any of our competitors. Most, of course, were for stories or pictures that appeared in 1990, beginning with the Jan. 1 issue. Its cover story on Mikhail Gorbachev as Man of the Decade was chosen by the Overseas Press Club to receive the Hallie and Whit Burnett Award as best general-magazine article on foreign affairs. The Overseas Press Club also presented its Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad to TIME photographer Christopher Morris...
...razor-sharp intelligence behind a somewhat oafish exterior. But when he scorns the American "foreign policy elite" for sniffing at Yeltsin because the Russian might not know which fork to use at a state banquet, he is rather obviously settling some old personal scores, and when he calls Mikhail Gorbachev "a Soviet version of Adlai Stevenson," he does not mean it as a compliment...
Even before the Baker-Shoval meeting last week, the Palestinians had threatened to withdraw from the talks. But Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, spokeswoman for the Palestinian peace negotiators, made it clear that if the guarantees were conditioned to "eliminate entirely any possibility of these funds being subsidies to occupation and settlements," the Palestinians would continue to negotiate. They are unlikely to be satisfied by the proposal that Baker reportedly made. "It is permission to put 10,000 obstacles on the road to peace," says Saeb Erakat, a member of the Palestinian negotiating team...
...Kennedy School, like half of the academic institutions in America, has offered an invitation to Mikhail S. Gorbachev--you know, the former leader of the former Soviet Union. If I were Gorbachev, I'd take my forty-dollar-a-month pension, settle into my little dacha in the Crimea and play with my grand-daughter. I wouldn't want to brave the Boston winter to explain to 24-year-old gov jocks how I failed as the leader of the world's other "superpower." Even Freud wouldn't recommend that much self-awareness...