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History, however, takes no reservations. The efforts of Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev to capture the world's attention were swept before them by one of those rare and indescribable upwellings of national spirit. Events within the Great Hall of the People, where the leaders set about mending a 30- year rift, received some note. But it was the events in Tiananmen Square, where a hunger strike by 3,000 students swelled to a demonstration by more than a million Chinese expressing the inexpressible -- a longing for freedom and prosperity -- that transfixed the eye. On Saturday, as government troops were...
Even if some of the demonstration's rhetoric was borrowed from America, it was the Soviet Union and, more specifically, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose presence counted more than any other. Countless banners lauded PIONEER OF GLASNOST, while posters with his portrait declared him AN EMISSARY OF DEMOCRACY...
...Sino-Soviet summit, an event whose significance dropped to that of a sizable footnote. What was intended as an elaborate celebration of China's assured and independent standing and the Soviet Union's new civility in the international arena became incidental entertainment beside the pro-democracy demonstrations. Early on, Mikhail Gorbachev quipped about his comeuppance. At a meeting with President Yang, the Soviet President remarked, "Well, I came to Beijing and you have a revolution...
...agree the words are sweet, but there are a number of significant anomalies. There is a lot of dissonance between what they say, which seems to have captured everyone's imagination in the belief that the cold war is over, and what is actually being done. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev talks about withdrawing 10,000 tanks, but Soviet tank production is very high. They're now producing about 3,000 tanks a year -- far better tanks, by the way, than anything they are talking about removing. Consider what just this one indicator means. They say, and I agree after having...
...when the expert on the Soviet economy agreed to be interviewed by correspondents Alexander Vasinsky and Alexander A. Shalnev from Izvestia, the official Soviet government daily, he felt the changes in the Soviet press which have been spurred by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's glasnost policies would make the interviewers more evenhanded...