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Gorbachev met frequently with Boris Pugo, who had become Interior Minister on Dec. 2, 1990. In these conversations Pugo was careful to steer clear of the fundamental issue of whether the Baltic republics were entitled to independence. Instead he stayed within the bounds of his responsibility for law and order. With the Baltics acting as though they were already sovereign states, he said, the situation was "spinning out of control"; if the Baltics succeeded in defying Moscow, other republics would be encouraged to do the same...
...same sources. At one point, addressing representatives of the republics, Gorbachev read excerpts from an Alexander Hamilton essay in The Federalist Papers to back up his advocacy of a federal tax system under which the central government would collect at least some revenues directly. He was trying to steer them away from proposals, primarily from Yeltsin, for a plan in which the republics collect all the money and pass on a portion to the Kremlin...
...disagreed: "There's always some s.o.b. who thinks Webster ought to be making policy the way Bill Casey did," Bush told his aides. Yet opinion in Washington is nearly unanimous in the view that Webster did not develop the mastery of foreign policy or of intelligence issues needed to steer the ship of spookdom through the uncharted 1990s...
Graduates have tried to "steer the club in the right direction," Doherty said. He said that Malone had briefly acted as a liaison between current members of the Pi Eta and alumni, but stopped to become more involved in state politics...
...Vietnam, he saw firsthand the flaws of the 1960s ethic when the self-styled Balto-Cong raided his underground newspaper in Baltimore and claimed the paper was not radical enough. That, coupled with the fact that a huge chunk of his first paycheck went to the government, began to steer him away from liberalism. "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life but only a fool trusts either of them," writes O'Rourke in Parliament of Whores...