Word: perestroikas
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...Lithuania's demands to secede from the union were an isolated appeal. If the nation is divided over issues of language, culture, politics and religion, it is united in its dissatisfaction with economic problems. As goes Lithuania, so might go other republics -- thus inviting a military crackdown and destroying perestroika. "If even the slightest suppression occurs, or a misunderstanding, say, in Estonia or Moldavia," Gorbachev warned, "it spills over to the rest of the country...
...hopes to duplicate in his new post. "We're losing the Gorbachev of American education," laments Andy Gollan, a spokesman for the Dade County school board. The question is whether the New York system, with its 27.3% dropout rate and entrenched tradition of cronyism, is ready for educational perestroika...
...course in democracy, as radicals and former dissidents led by the late Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov denounced the KGB as "the most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions" and counseled against giving Gorbachev, now President of the country, too much power. Here was part of the paradox of perestroika: democratization, so crucial to Gorbachev's principles and strategy alike, emboldened his critics and opponents...
...Baltic states over their intention to cancel Article 6 and declare their own communist parties independent. The Lithuanian party voted last week to split from Moscow and declared its intention to create "an independent, democratic Lithuanian state." One-party rule, Gorbachev says, is vital to the success of perestroika. He opposed debate on the issue at the opening of the People's Congress in mid-December, saying it would have to wait until constitutional revision as a whole is considered. But he may not get his way in that respect -- as well as in many others. The Soviet Communist Party...
...hesitates to take the plunge. Moscow's latest five-year economic plan, announced two weeks ago, still retains central control of production quotas and postpones vital price reforms until 1992. Gorbachev denies that he intends to move to a totally Western-style, free-market system. He insists that his perestroika can in time deliver democracy in a one-party state and efficiency in a planned economy...