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...worried that they may be high on Moscow's target list. The republic has been on a collision course with the Kremlin ever since Gamsakhurdia's nationalist coalition won an election victory last October. The first acts of the new parliament were to drop the words Soviet and Socialist from the republic's name and inaugurate a transitional period to full independence. Georgia has announced that it will not sign the new Union Treaty proposed by Gorbachev and has sent only 10% of its quota of conscripts to the armed forces. Says deputy parliamentary chairman Akaki Asatiani: "We make...
...While he has put up with considerable disorder, which dismays his generals, he has demonstrated before that he is ready to use armed force to hold the union together. Now Gorbachev has adopted stale Stalinist lies by claiming he is responding to pleas from nameless patriots to protect the socialist revolution from fascists. To bolster those lies he is also moving to reintroduce censorship. It was no accident that 15 unarmed protesters died defending Lithuania's television center. Glasnost, which has succeeded, is as endangered as perestroika, which...
Sherry Wolf, a New York representative from the International Socialist Oranization, which co-sponsored the event with Students Against War in the Middle East, said that people should focus on altering Bush's actions instead of demonstrating their disgust with Saddam Hussein...
...concept of a Greater Israel. Many of the olim are less ideological than other recent settlers, and the idea of a big Israel is not very important to them. But they are likely to be extremely sensitive to the nation's security and repelled by Labor's socialist trappings...
...toughest jobs was getting the U.S. to believe that he and Gorbachev meant what they said. A breakthrough occurred at a private dinner in May 1989 when Shevardnadze convinced his American counterpart, James Baker, that Moscow was determined to deal with the weaknesses of its socialist system and to build a peaceful international environment that would allow it to focus on its internal ailments...