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...they believe, Mikhail Gorbachev's political savoir-faire and the imminent collapse of communism will give them the money to further inflate the Great Society programs of the 1960s and 70s. They are convinced that anti-communist, anti-government conservatism has lost its appeal in the changing world...
...JUNE SUMMIT, DON'T OFFER HIM A MARTINI. Mikhail Gorbachev's health is of more than morbid interest to U.S. strategists. Analysts at the C.I.A. and State Department are now convinced he's a mild diabetic. They believe he developed the disease in his 40s and controls his blood sugar by taking tablets rather than insulin injections. He has been advised to watch what he eats and to avoid liquor, which may account for his strong dislike of vodka -- and his campaign to stop his countrymen from knocking back so much...
...occupied Communist Party buildings earlier, seized government offices in Vilnius and installed a new chief prosecutor charged with enforcing Soviet, not Lithuanian, laws. Meanwhile, a senior military officer in Moscow said no offer of amnesty had been authorized and criminal cases had been opened against all deserters. While Mikhail Gorbachev had not cracked down on the nationalist movement, Sajudis, or the separatist parliament, his power play had rendered Lithuania's declaration of independence null and void...
...General Mikhail Moiseyev, the Chief of the General Staff, puts the number of troops pulling out of Hungary and Czechoslovakia this year at 35,000, plus 30,000 family members. About the same number will leave East Germany and Poland in 1990. Eventually, all the approximately half a million Soviet soldiers stationed in the Warsaw Pact countries may be withdrawn. "We will bring the troops home," said Moiseyev, "but no one has clearly thought what it will cost. Families will find themselves without apartments or work, children without schools...
...Just decided. Just placed the call, and his phone rings. It works." That was from George Bush. He was talking in the filtered sunlight of the Oval Office about the three times he has reached out and touched Mikhail Gorbachev. The first time was just after Bush took over the presidency. The second call came in January, when German unification was hot, the third in February, after the Nicaraguan elections...