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...communist, a convinced communist. For some that may be fantasy but for me it is my main goal." For those who follow the travails of Mikhail Gorbachev, that forthright credo, proclaimed last December, is increasingly shadowed by questions of apostasy. Is this guardian of Marxism really a true believer or the architect of a final loss of faith...
...hands." But as Doder and Branson point out, "Russia is a country that fervently needs an ideology, a set of beliefs, a religion." Much of the dogma that has shaped the past seven decades of Soviet life has already been abandoned, but what new faith will Mikhail Gorbachev offer his people...
...would be almost useless, since the primary cause of the Soviet Union's meat and vegetable shortage is its primitive storage and distribution system. More than half of all fruits and vegetables end up unfit for human consumption, and the same thing would inevitably happen to American shipments. Mikhail Gorbachev's path to salvation must lead away from centralized socialist planning and toward a market economy. Any future American assistance will probably be aimed at pushing him down that road...
...Union addressing a NATO meeting as guest of honor? Until quite recently, the idea would have seemed as preposterous as stickup artist Willie Sutton delivering the keynote speech to the American Bankers Association. But NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner will in fact fly to Moscow this weekend to give Mikhail Gorbachev a personal briefing on the results of last week's Western alliance summit in London. With him Worner will carry the diplomatic equivalent of an engraved invitation for Gorbachev to attend and speak at a future meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, perhaps about a year from...
...first sign of trouble came barely five minutes after Mikhail Gorbachev opened the 28th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party last week. A delegate from the far eastern region of Magadan proposed an unprecedented resolution, calling for nothing less than the resignation of the entire Central Committee and its ruling Politburo. The daring delegate also wanted the party leadership to tell the 4,657 delegates why so little had been accomplished since the last party Congress, in February 1986, which had launched Gorbachev's ambitious -- and increasingly beleaguered -- program of perestroika to transform the Soviet Union...