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...army not crushed the pro-democracy movement -- and what might still come to pass. Communist Party officials in Beijing put out a directive telling their cadres how to interpret the revolution that swept across Eastern Europe last year, the result of the subversion of socialism by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. In the Arab world several newspapers pointedly reminded oppressive regimes that tyranny could not be maintained forever and that strongmen in the region should take heed...
...present Communist Party and state leadership will not permit the breakup of the federal state." With that harsh comment on the Lithuanian party's decision to break with Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev laid down the limit on Soviet political reform. After months of acquiescence while communist parties across Eastern Europe went their own way, Gorbachev made it clear that a similar move by any of the 15 republics of the U.S.S.R. would be considered "illegitimate." No group had yet dared to defy Moscow in this way, and Gorbachev let his anger show. "If we cross this line," he declared...
...death toll soared, with hundreds of bodies lying in the streets. There were even unconfirmed reports that Syrian and Libyan mercenaries were aiding the pro-Ceausescu forces. As the fighting intensified, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev offered to send medical aid to the anti-Ceausescu forces, and Western diplomats suggested that the growing bloodshed might even lead to direct Soviet intervention on the side of the revolutionaries...
...people -- whose name was so often taken in vain by their rulers -- longed for a leader with verve and vision, someone who would represent their pride rather than their shame. There was, therefore, a national murmur of interest in 1979, when the country got its first look at Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev at a televised awards ceremony. Not only did this new Central Committee Secretary, then 48, seem at ease among the ruling septuagenarians; he was the only one able to say thank you for his medal without reading from a 3-by-5 card...
...DECADE: An impresario of calculated disorder named Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...