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Despite a continuing flow of arms from Moscow, Western diplomats suspect that the Soviets are not happy with their ally. When Mengistu visited Moscow in April, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev cautioned him to "proceed from realities and not outrun stages of development." Politburo Member Lev Zaikov was reportedly blunter when he visited Addis Ababa in September...
...geopolitical astrology has produced one of those rare conjunctions when two very different orbits are in alignment: the waning days of Reagan's tenure and the consolidation of Gorbachev's. Each leader faces political problems at home -- a Politburo can be as cranky as a Congress -- and sees a chance to solidify power by summit successes. Each confronts economic problems, from the perils of perestroika to the pratfalls...
...satisfy them by asking the indiscreet to be more careful. A word to Judge Ginsburg and he will probably have agreed to keep doobies out of his judge's chambers. As for the hyper-competitive Mr. Carlucci? Perhaps somebody should simply ask him to decline all tennis invitations from Politburo members...
Although he will almost certainly lose his nonvoting seat on the ruling Politburo, the former Moscow party chief is expected to remain on the policymaking Central Committee. In his new post he will hold the No. 2 position in a department responsible for one of the most important yet trouble-prone sectors of the Soviet economy. Yeltsin will help oversee large- scale construction projects, a field in which he specialized when he was a young engineer assisting in the development of the industrial center of Sverdlovsk...
...week, said that Yeltsin had "in fact sought to call into question the Communist Party's work on restructuring and the character of changes and went as far as to say that restructuring was giving nothing to the people." Gorbachev implied that Yeltsin brought up matters relating to the Politburo's "collective leadership." That may be a reference to a complaint by Yeltsin, according to some unofficial accounts of the session, that some of Gorbachev's subordinates were building a "cult of personality" around the Soviet leader...