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...wields power in the country's second largest city is the classic political outsider. Sobchak was a little-known professor of economic law at Leningrad State University until he was elected last year to the Soviet parliament. Then almost overnight, his witty and acerbic exchanges with Mikhail Gorbachev on legal fine points won him national prominence. When Sobchak became chairman of the Leningrad city council last May, the move was hailed as a victory for radical democrats opposed to the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Sobchak is still the most admired politician in his native city -- with a popularity...
...harder for a traveler in the Soviet Union to find someone who has anything good to say about Mikhail Gorbachev than it was for Diogenes the Cynic, in his wanderings through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, to find an honest man. Gorbachev's unpopularity can be understood only as part of what is happening to the country as a whole, no matter who tries to govern from the Kremlin...
...Mikhail Gorbachev deserves a hand for being able to laugh at his troubles, but he may want to consider clearing his jokes with other targets of his humor, especially if one of them is the President of France. As the Soviet leader left a session of the Russian parliament last week, he stopped to tell reporters a self-deprecating joke that also featured Francois Mitterrand and George Bush. "They say that Mitterrand has 100 lovers. One has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one," Gorbachev said. "Bush has 100 bodyguards. One is a terrorist, but he doesn't know...
When he gets back from that jaunt, he plans to hang out at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for only four days, then to roar south to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela and Uruguay. In January it must be Moscow, if Bush's pal Mikhail Gorbachev is still in charge, followed by stops in Turkey and Greece. By the end of February, Air Force One is expected to be riding the billowy cumulus above Australia, headed for South Korea and Japan, leading to the dark suspicion that Bush may be trying to emulate Lyndon B. Magellan (a tag pasted on L.B.J. when...
George Bush uses much more upbeat language, of course. So do Mikhail Gorbachev, Francois Mitterrand and other leaders of the coalition. And it is true that no one has edged away from the central demand: Iraq must get out of Kuwait. But whether, and to what extent, the other members will continue to back American ideas on how to achieve that goal -- especially as Washington comes closer and closer to converting what has always been an implicit threat of war to a very explicit one -- remains uncertain...