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...widely anticipated campus appearance—his first in a decade—former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev looked back yesterday on the era of perestroika that he had engineered...
Through an interpreter, Gorbachev told a packed Sanders Theatre that he believes the restructuring, which involved limited privatization of the Soviet economy, was a success even though economic problems plagued Russia throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
During six years as head of the U.S.S.R. Communist Party, Gorbachev instituted economic and social reforms that eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the introduction of capitalism...
...said that he had been shaped by living through Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, the Nazi occupation of his home district during World War II and the country’s rebuilding period following the war. He also cited Nikita S. Khrushchev’s celebrated “Secret Speech” of 1956, in which he criticized Stalin for an overly repressive regime. Gorbachev said this set the youth of the time on the path that eventually led to reform...
Alarming headlines last week suggested that international terrorism had come to Hong Kong. Three men of South Asian descent were arrested for allegedly trying to trade drugs for Stinger missiles, the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons used to wipe out Soviet planes and helicopters in Afghanistan in the 1980s. A U.S. indictment of the three suspects claims that the arms were destined for al-Qaeda, and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has enthusiastically hailed the bust as a "strike against the terrorism/drug-trafficking nexus...