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...when the country's 213-member Central Committee held a special one-day session in Havana two weeks ago and issued what the Cuban Communist Party daily Granma trumpeted as "transcendental pronouncements." The "revitalization" measures initially seemed to be a belated curtsy to the changes initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev. But a closer reading indicated that the proposals were aimed at distancing Cuba from events across the Atlantic...
...supporter and protector of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies...
...while Mikhail Gorbachev has promised to remove 120,000 troops from Soviet Asia and Mongolia, that would still leave 600,000 along the Soviet border with China. At least 10,000 troops are based in the northern territories just off Japan that were seized by the Soviets in 1945. The Soviet Pacific fleet of 77 ships and 120 submarines has access to ports in North Korea as well as its own facilities in Vladivostok...
...pushing for unification too quickly, largely to serve his own political ambitions, while riding roughshod over the legitimate concerns of Germany's neighbors. In Warsaw, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki renewed his demand last week for a direct Polish role in any international discussions over Germany's future. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reluctantly agreed that the two Germanys had a "right to unity," but maintained that "our country should not sustain either moral or political or economic damage" as a result...
February 10: My parents arrived in Cambridge with a team of deprogramming experts. They tried to convince me that TETRIS is a communist plot to despoil the minds of American youth. I responded that the Cold War is over, and showed them my new tatoo of Mikhail Gorbachev...