Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haggard and pale, she walked down the steps of the plane that carried her and her family back to Moscow after 72 hours of house arrest in the Crimea. But last week the world did get a chance to read what the 59-year-old wife of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had to say about her ordeal and, in a newly released memoir, about her earlier foreboding of what lay ahead...
Fischer noted that it has become more difficult for the West to give general monetary aid to the Soviet Union because it is not even clear whether the aid would go to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's federal government or Boris Yeltsin's Russian Republic...
RAISA GORBACHEV'S apparent nervous breakdown did not surprise top Soviet analysts. The normally vigorous First Lady was showing signs of tension when she accompanied her husband to the London economic summit in July. Drawing aside Barbara Bush, Raisa confided her worries about Mikhail's political future, even hinting that she feared for his life. Soviet officials in Europe report that she became hysterical several times during her Crimean captivity, and speculate that she has suffered a stroke and a heart attack...
...party that had run the country for more than 70 years using a combination of ruthless terror and plodding bureaucracy. Like party offices all across the country, it was shut down after the failure of the attempted coup, its assets frozen and its employees out on the street. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as its leader and the national parliament suspended its activities...
...communism as we have known and hated it is out of the way, perhaps George Bush can now talk unabashedly to Soviet officials about such good old- fashioned values as God, truth and the sanctity of human life. Evangelist Billy Graham, who talked to Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev shortly before the botched coup, returned from the Soviet Union and passed the word to his friend Bush that both men had told him of the need for "some philosophy, some religion, an inner strength" for their society...