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...recommended that 100,000 U.S. troops be added to the 210,000 already deployed along the Persian Gulf, there were widespread rumors and speculation that the offensive would start soon after this week's congressional elections -- or before Christmas, or early in the new year. In contrast, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev declared that any "military solution" was "unacceptable" after his personal envoy, Yevgeni Primakov, returned from a second exploratory mission to Baghdad. There Primakov claimed to find Saddam "more disposed to a political solution," a development invisible to everyone else...
...compromise is what has made Prunskiene such a forceful leader. She always expresses herself firmly and directly, she says, but "in such a way that when the conversation is over, it can end without conflict and leave open the possibility of continuing later." Her private discussions with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, she says, have been marked by this ability to disagree without insulting or demeaning the Soviet leader. Yet if her tactics are nonconfrontational, she is unwilling to compromise her goals. "The most important thing," she says, "is to reach our independence...
...When Mikhail Gorbachev decided a year ago that the Communist Party daily Pravda needed a face-lift, he appointed Politburo ally and confidant Ivan Frolov, 61, to perform the surgery. Frolov quickly pledged that the conservative Soviet mouthpiece would strive to reflect the "pluralism of opinions" within the Communist Party. But the promised glasnost failed to materialize. Last month at an open party meeting, Pravda employees angrily demanded their editor in chief's resignation. Frolov, they fumed, was high- handed, rude and a sycophant of the worst order. Staff members charged that he muzzled editorial voices and blocked attempts...
Fidgety and intent, Mikhail Gorbachev sat on the edge of his leather chair in the presidential box near the front of the Kremlin Hall of Meetings. He wiped his glasses, sipped tea and thumbed a scarlet folder while waiting to take center stage before the Supreme Soviet...
Shevardnadze's parliamentary pledge reflected Mikhail Gorbachev's conviction that any use of force must be approved by the United Nations Security Council, a position the U.S. Congress tends to favor as well. For a while last week it seemed that the Soviet President might be testing the climate for a settlement based on a partial Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. Yevgeni Primakov, a Gorbachev aide who had visited Saddam in Baghdad three weeks ago, met with Bush on Friday and told him the Iraqi leader would not withdraw from Kuwait prior to negotiations, as U.S. policy now demands. Bush...