Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East to try to broker a peace conference, Scowcroft sets the overall game plan. Scowcroft, for instance, proposed cutting U.S. conventional forces in Europe, an idea that culminated in the signing of a treaty by 22 nations in November 1990. Bush's December 1989 surprise meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev was cooked up by the President and Scowcroft on the veranda of the American embassy in Paris after Bush made a four-day swing through fast- changing Poland and Hungary...
Bush calculates, no doubt correctly, that Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are every bit as frightened of that prospect as he is, especially in the wake of the aborted coup in August...
Anatoli Chernyayev first met Mikhail Gorbachev almost 20 years ago when they were both members of a Soviet delegation traveling abroad. In 1986 the former history professor, who had spent more than two decades with the Central Committee's international department, was made a top adviser to the man who had recently become the leader of the Soviet Union. In August 1991, over four desperate days, he shared house arrest with his President...
...room during my absences. I made some additions later, very shortly after we came back to Moscow. I did not plan to publish these notes, and only scribbled something down mechanically, subconsciously hoping that 'manuscripts do not burn' ((an allusion to the work of the early 20th century writer Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita...
...conversation was drawn out past 9 p.m. Then Rutskoi intervened -- a strong and handsome man, pleasing the eye, one of the pillars of the earth. "Mikhail Sergeyevich," he said, "it is high time we discussed what we do next. We will not let you fly on the ((presidential)) airplane they ((the plotters)) arrived on. ((It was still unclear whether the coup had been totally foiled, and they were wary of using the easily identifiable presidential plane.)) We will take my plane. It is parked on the same airfield but at a distance from yours. It is closely guarded. I brought...