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...thing can be said for Mikhail Gorbachev: he certainly has a strong survival instinct. After committing enough errors of judgment to have wrecked the careers of a dozen or so Western politicians, he was back on the job at the Kremlin last week, chastened, humiliated, but as determined as ever to hold on to his powers as President of the Soviet Union. Never mind that the Communist Party was no more, the central government dissolved, the security services and armed forces undergoing a painful purge and the Soviet parliament in total disarray. The failed putsch may have left a gaping...
...finally ventured. "Look at how much Gorbachev's image has changed over the past few days. Who knows what it will be like in even a month's time?" If events of the past fortnight have taught any lesson, it is this: no one should rush to write off Mikhail Gorbachev...
...work last week at Communist Party headquarters in the Russian town of Pushkino, 20 miles from Moscow, she found the doors locked. The plaque identifying the building had been pried off the wall, and the flag stand next to the door was empty. By order of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who a few days before had been the world's top communist, Labus and tens of thousands of people like her across the Soviet Union were...
...sure, nobody expects the dissolution to go that far. Last week, indeed, saw the beginning of a countertrend toward formation of some kind of new union, spurred by somber warnings against self-destructive splintering of authority. Mikhail Gorbachev threatened to resign as Soviet President if some sort of union is not preserved, and Sobchak called a complete dissolution of the union "suicidal." Delegations of the giant Russian republic and Ukraine pledged to work out at least military and economic cooperation and invited the other republics to participate. At week's end a Russian delegation got the signatures of the leaders...
...most chilling aspects of last week's coup attempt is that -- for 76 hours -- the Soviet Union's top-secret nuclear release codes were in the hands of men later denounced as "adventurists" by Mikhail Gorbachev. According to the Washington Post, a member of the Russian delegation that accompanied Gorbachev back to Moscow said the men who put the Soviet President under house arrest in his Crimean dacha also seized the "black box" (actually a briefcase) containing the codes. Could the coupmakers have launched or threatened a nuclear attack? Or was the Soviet deterrent effectively paralyzed for three days...