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...sure, nobody expects the dissolution to go that far. Last week, indeed, saw the beginning of a countertrend toward formation of some kind of new union, spurred by somber warnings against self-destructive splintering of authority. Mikhail Gorbachev threatened to resign as Soviet President if some sort of union is not preserved, and Sobchak called a complete dissolution of the union "suicidal." Delegations of the giant Russian republic and Ukraine pledged to work out at least military and economic cooperation and invited the other republics to participate. At week's end a Russian delegation got the signatures of the leaders...
...government they have earned -- a democracy. For the first time, they did not subside into an acceptance of overlords. Instead they turned last week's reactionary coup into a transforming rite of passage, an epochal event that forced even Gorbachev to re-examine his most basic beliefs and resign his post as head of the Communist Party...
...address his rescuers. Only well down his list did he mention Yeltsin among those to be thanked. The Russian crowds were not impressed. Just beyond the Kremlin wall in Red Square, a sea of marching, flag-waving demonstrators chanted "Yel-tsin! Yel-tsin!" and shouted for Gorbachev to resign or resume his interrupted vacation...
Rethinking of that sort has no place in Shamir's strategy, so he might already be pondering how to derail the negotiations if pressure to make concessions becomes overwhelming. One way for him to bail out would be to arrange for several hard-liners to resign from his governing coalition, causing its collapse. That would produce an Israeli election just as the U.S. goes into its own presidential year, when American politicians are even less eager than usual to try to coerce Israel...
...report calls for a revamped police commission with the power to terminate the chief. All five incumbent commissioners were urged to resign, and so far, two have. The report also recommends a new system for addressing citizens' complaints and an emphasis on "community policing" programs, which rely on prevention more than force...