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...from Moscow, the eventual military consequences of the Pentagon cuts are less important than the immediate political benefit: after numerous unilateral and unrequited Soviet concessions, the U.S. is at last joining in the process of scaling back the rivalry. President Bush has finally found a concrete way to help Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Milos Jakes, the beginning of the end came early last summer. In a series of private exchanges between the Czechoslovak Communist Party leader and Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers, the Soviet President made clear that his own internal situation demanded a repudiation of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. If Jakes, 67, did not want to be undercut by the Soviet move, he would have to act -- and act soon. An agreement between Moscow and Prague was struck. Come October, Jakes would convene a Central Committee meeting and expel all Politburo members tainted by the 1968 invasion -- except himself. After appointing...
...There is nobody now who could ask Sovietsoldiers to fire on Hungarians these days," Duvesaid. "[Soviet leader Mikhail S.] Gorbachev is notone person. He is a huge movement...
Certainly this has much to do with the vision and talent of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in spreading his ideas of perestroika and glasnost. And the United States has not always pursued its foreign policy goals in a noble and ethical way. But the part played by the United States in accomplishing its mission--of encouraging democracy around the world--has been a great...
BRUSSELS, Belgium--President Bush said yesterday it's too early to proclaim an end to the Cold War, but added that Mikhail S. Gorbachev's acceptance of sweeping reform in Eastern Europe "absolutely mandates new thinking" by the West...