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...contrast to the mercurial Yeltsin, Gorbachev is safe and sound. Consider, for example, Yeltsin's statement on Russian territorial claims against other republics. It seemed to explode on the political scene like a firecracker tossed by some impish prankster. Then, in characteristic style, the Russian leader slunk out of Moscow, leaving no official word of his whereabouts, though he was presumed to be on his way to one of the Baltic republics. Such acts are the stuff of grand legends, not sound policies. And they are most definitely not characteristic of the cautious Gorbachev style of leadership...
When former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze warned the world against dictatorship in the Soviet Union, he had some harsh words as well for democrats in his country. "You have dispersed," he complained. "Reformers have slunk into the bushes." So it seemed until last week, when people by the tens of thousands reappeared on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad and other cities to protest military intervention in the Baltics. No event since the advent of perestroika has so polarized Soviet society as the bloodshed in Vilnius. It has widened the chasm between reformers and reactionaries, leaving almost no support...
...Shevardnadze; and to a world that had been wondering with increasing apprehension which way the U.S.S.R. was going. Shevardnadze thought he knew: back toward the terrible past. "Reactionaries" were gaining power, he said, and nobody would speak out against them. "Comrade democrats!" Shevardnadze shouted, "You have scattered. Reformers have slunk into the bushes. A dictatorship is coming...
...come for the holidays, there was a lot of good snow, we were together, and I had my pills." Betty Ford made the worst of them. In a confession marked by candor and salinity, the former First Lady traces the history of her chemical abuse. Lesser women might have slunk off to obscurity. But Ford had a saving grace: the ability to feel embarrassment. When her family intervened, she first replied, "You are all a bunch of monsters. Get out of here and never come back. " They refused to get out of her life, and she was forced to face...
...Union private yelled, "I can't see!" as he stumbled and fell into the weeds. Another Northerner lost his nerve and began to run. His colonel drew a pistol and yelled, "You have two seconds to get back into that line or you will be dead." The coward slunk back...