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...started to stray from the script. As the television commentator kept trying to interrupt, Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian republic, plunged the politics of the U.S.S.R. into turmoil by taking on the President of the Soviet Union himself. "I separate myself from the position and policies of Mikhail Gorbachev," he read in a slow, deep baritone, "and I call for his immediate resignation...
...ballet began with a Baghdad announcement Friday, Feb. 15, indicating Iraq's "readiness to deal with" the basic U.N. resolution demanding withdrawal from Kuwait -- subject to farfetched conditions; one demanded reparations for allied bombing. But though Bush promptly denounced the proposal as a "cruel hoax," Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev proclaimed himself encouraged enough to invite Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow for new talks. Aziz arrived on Sunday, Feb. 17, by a roundabout route that underscored the total air supremacy the allies have achieved over Iraq. He was driven across the Iranian border, then helicoptered to Tehran, and flew...
...When Mikhail Gorbachev launched his own diplomatic offensive to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis last October, he asked his personal adviser, Yevgeni Primakov, to take on the task. Primakov, 61, was an ideal choice: as a correspondent for Pravda in the 1960s, he traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and met Saddam Hussein many times...
...returned from Baghdad the night of Feb. 13, where I was sent by Mikhail Gorbachev to meet with Saddam Hussein to try once again, this time while war was being waged, to turn him toward a political settlement. The road to Baghdad was not an easy one. The city was being bombed heavily by the U.S. Air Force and other members of the multinational coalition. In fact, according to the Iraqis, Baghdad was being subjected to particularly severe air attacks at the time we were there...
Shortly before Bush departed for the show, he had spoken with Mikhail Gorbachev, who reported that he and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz had agreed on terms for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, terms that would allow Saddam Hussein to preserve much of his military machine and political prestige...