Word: mikhail
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Khrushchev, who will be in Moscow until joining the IOP in late October, has just written a book-- Khrushchev on Khrushchev--that describes his father's tenure at the helm of the Soviet Union and relates those years to the present rule of Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...worn-out old phonograph record" whose potential as a political leader is "not great," snapped Mikhail Gorbachev. An "indecisive . . . master of half measures," countered Boris Yeltsin. That was the kind of gibe the Soviet Union's two leading politicos had been exchanging in three years of unabated rivalry. Last week they decided to cooperate: Gorbachev and Yeltsin agreed to set up a commission to frame a relatively radical plan for introducing a market economy. Said Nikolai Petrakov, a Gorbachev adviser and member of the 13-man panel: "This is the most important information...
Last week President Mikhail Gorbachev finally ordered these local vigilante groups to disband, charging that they "encouraged irresponsibility" and "threatened human lives." He gave them 15 days to demobilize and hand over their weapons, and threatened to use force if they resisted...
...right about so many things. He cut tax rates, in the teeth of predictions that the sky would fall, and it's still over our heads. For half a century he disliked communism -- no more, it turns out, than Chinese students, Lithuanian voters or many of Mikhail Gorbachev's advisers...
...chairs? Shortly after Vladimir Ivashko, 58, was elected chairman of the Ukrainian parliament last month, he stepped down as first secretary of the republic's Communist Party. Then, two weeks ago, he abruptly resigned from his post in Kiev and won the key job of deputy to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...