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BUSH will never be compared favorably in the same breath to many of the great figures in the world today. People like Mikhail Gorbachev, Francois Mitterand and Margaret Thatcher are able to overcome political pressures and force their agenda on the nations they lead and the world around them. Bush cannot...
When Hong Kong photographer Robin Moyer went to Beijing in mid-May, it was for what he considered a "simple assignment": to cover the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Very quickly, says Moyer, "it became obvious that the story was the cry for democracy in Tiananmen." His assignment stretched into weeks, until the fatal night of the military crackdown. "No picture is worth risking your life for," says Moyer, "but at night everyone just went out, snapping away, oblivious to the dangers...
None of this will happen overnight. But it's not naive or unpatriotic to applaud Mikhail Gorbachev's courage and to toast his good health. George Bush is not the only one who'd better not catch cold...
Coal miners walking off their jobs from the Ukraine to the Arctic Circle. Ethnic gangs battling in Georgia. Thousands of other dissatisfied workers threatening strikes. "The situation," said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last week as he surveyed the turmoil rocking his vast country, "is fraught with dangerous political and economic consequences." The question for Gorbachev: Will the "revolution from below," which he has been urging on his laggard countrymen, help accelerate his ambitious plans for reform -- or tear the U.S.S.R. apart...
Moscow quickly dispatched a high-level delegation to meet the strikers, led by Politburo Member Nikolai Slyunkov. Mikhail Shchadov, the minister in charge of coal mines, had earlier told the workers that they were not prepared for the independence they were demanding. But after negotiating with local strike leaders into the early hours of the morning, the Moscow delegation finally agreed to sign a protocol promising that the region's mines could decide on their production levels and investments. The state would raise miners' pay for night shifts by $50 a month, a 40% increase, improve food supplies and spend...