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Boris Yeltsin is beginning to know what it feels like to be Mikhail Gorbachev. Last week the Russian president confronted a group of angry nationalists seeking independence from Moscow -- and stumbled badly...
...When Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush met in Madrid last week, they had plenty to talk about but little business to transact. It is no longer clear what authority Gorbachev has to enter into international agreements, or even what the constitutional procedure is for ratifying the strategic-arms- reduction treaty the two Presidents signed last July. That was barely three months ago, but it was, as they say in Moscow, B.C. -- before the coup. Since then, with the rapid disintegration of the U.S.S.R., the very term Soviet leader has become something of an oxymoron. So has Soviet Union...
...scored a considerable victory by getting the talks started at all, dramatizing its unchallenged status as the world's sole remaining superpower. Bush did not need to make that point; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev did it for him. The Soviet Union -- "a country that exists only outside its borders," in the cruel summation of an American official -- is nominally co- chairman of the conference, and its participation enabled some Arabs to claim that they were not just knuckling under to the U.S. But Gorbachev made it clear that Moscow would now fade into the background and pretty much go along...
POLITICAL ANALYSTS in the last two months have been busy writing Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's obituary. They speak of him as a man who is ready to be buried in the Kremlin wall. Gorbachev is eulogized for his achievements, as if he long ago played all his cards...
Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev have done little better trying to reconstitute some central authority in what used to be the U.S.S.R. The indispensable first step, formation of an economic union, seemed to be at hand a few days ago, but only eight of the 12 remaining Soviet republics signed the treaty setting one up. Ukraine pulled out at the last minute, vowing to have total independence, and last week the parliament in Kiev voted to create a separate Ukrainian army, navy and air force. For good measure, it demanded to share control of all nuclear weapons on Ukrainian...