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...agree with National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that Mikhail Gorbachev's "peace offensive" is designed to make trouble for the Western Alliance...
This goes to the heart of Baker's ideas for pursuing the opportunities created by Mikhail Gorbachev's seemingly sincere desire to reform the Soviet Union. Like Bush, Baker does not fear a resurgent Moscow. "If they really reform their economic system," he says, "they'll be more secure at home and thus less inclined to military adventurism abroad." Baker's only worry, it seems, is that Gorbachev's days may be numbered. But as long as Gorbachev retains control, Baker is determined to deal wherever...
...often been that way. In the 1950s China was the Soviet Union's little brother, a junior partner in the world Communist conspiracy. After they broke ranks in 1960 over Chinese objections to Soviet lapses in ideological purity, each fiercely cold-shouldered the other. It was Mikhail Gorbachev who stepped up overtures to his populous and powerful neighbor three years ago. In a 1986 speech in Vladivostok, the Soviet leader offered to create "an atmosphere of good-neighborliness," and to do so "any time and at any level." Soon after, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping said he would meet with Gorbachev...
...motives for acting the suitor. To some degree, its concessions were part of Gorbachev's "new thinking" in foreign affairs. A continuation of cold-shoulder policies between two of the world's great powers made little diplomatic sense. "There have been no benefits from this rift for anyone," says Mikhail Titarenko, director of Moscow's Institute of Far Eastern Studies...
...political tremors of perestroika were not trouble enough for Mikhail Gorbachev, nature's rumblings are proving even more serious. For the second time in two months, a deadly earthquake hit the Soviet Union. As reconstruction efforts were getting under way in Armenia, where a massive tremor killed some 25,000 people, a second earthquake struck, this time 1,200 miles to the east in the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan...