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...lasting credit, Mikhail Gorbachev knew that was a lousy idea. He realized that the chemical reaction between intimidation and sycophancy could not fuel a modern society or allow even a so-called superpower to enter the 21st century as anything other than a basket case. Gorbachev has allowed the beginnings of real politics to take the place of terror, and the concept of real economics to replace the institutionalized inefficiency of central planning and massive subsidization...
According to Lucia, papal attempts to carry out that consecration failed in 1942, '52 and '82. John Paul finally carried out Mary's directive correctly in 1984 -- and the very next year Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power inaugurated the Soviet collapse. Says Father Robert Fox of the Fatima Family Shrine in Alexandria, S. Dak.: "The world will recognize in due time that the defeat of communism came at the intercession of the mother of Jesus...
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. The unseen star of this instant smash is Mikhail Gorbachev: his overtures to peace some years back inspired a parable of detente involving the Enterprise guys and the evil Klingon empire. Though William Shatner & Co. claim that this is the saga's last chapter, we'll bet they keep going until Willard Scott is wishing them all happy birthday. That would be about...
...Mikhail Gorbachev used his interview with TIME to reject speculation that he is on the verge of resigning. On two hours' notice last Friday afternoon, the Soviet leader called Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and editor-at-large Strobe Talbott to his Kremlin office for an 80-minute interview. Also present were historian Michael Beschloss, who is co-writing a book with Talbott on the Bush-Gorbachev relationship, and TIME's Felix Rosenthal. "He exuded a sense of complete control," says Kohan, "in what is clearly the most difficult crisis of his political career...
Only one man could bring the four predominantly Muslim republics of Central Asia into the commonwealth: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. But he is not likely to be bought easily. Irritated that he had not been consulted by the three Slavic republics, he initially sided with Mikhail Gorbachev, arguing that the President "has not yet exhausted his possibilities." By week's end he agreed to join the commonwealth -- provided that Kazakhstan would be recognized as a co-founder...