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...When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power five years ago, the U.S.-Soviet agenda broadened and deepened. During their four meetings in 1989, Baker and Eduard Shevardnadze spent so much time on the ideological and geopolitical issues at the core of the relationship that arms control was largely relegated to "working groups" manned by deputies. But the current leaders in Washington have come to realize that they are limited in what they can do to help Gorbachev succeed with perestroika. And the U.S. and the Soviet Union are nowhere near jointly managing the emergence of a new international order. George Bush...
Traditionally, most Jews who managed to obtain Soviet exit visas went to the U.S. -- 183,679 over the past 15 years. But as part of his reforms, President Mikhail Gorbachev is permitting much freer emigration than his country has ever seen. One of the unpleasant side effects of glasnost has been the rapid rise of anti-Semitism and right-wing Russian nationalism, which adds impetus to Jewish departures. A bill now before the parliament in Moscow will remove almost all limits on citizens who want to leave the country. At the same time, citing rising costs of resettlement...
...York Times op-ed page since 1973 and appears in more than 300 other papers. For cognoscenti, there were three surefire Safirific clues embedded in the quotation: 1) this former Richard Nixon speechwriter remains a nattering nabob of negativism (he also crafted lines for Spiro Agnew) about Mikhail Gorbachev's intentions; 2) Safire's forcefulness of expression and clarity of opinion, for he is not a columnist who seeks safety in mainstream musings; and 3) the wordplay that is Safire's trademark -- in this case, revamping Winston Churchill's pledge not to dismember the British empire...
...While you, Mikhail Sergeyevich, were only the[party] general secretary--absolutely withoutflattery I will say--we felt that new ideas wereborn in the party, that some kind of reformationwork was under way to break up the outlived andoutdated. Now you have four posts. One gets theimpression that someone wants the general not tobe successful at any of them, scattering powers,"Gankovsky said...
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's radical proposal to reduce the influence of the Communist Party holds great promise to transform that troubled nation, leading Harvard experts on the Soviet Union agreed yesterday...