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...considerable time trying to head off the election of his most influential critic, former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin, as president of the Russian federation. He met with Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene for nearly two hours in an attempt to persuade her that, at a minimum, her republic must suspend its two-month-old declaration of independence. It may be a measure of his domestic difficulties that Gorbachev's most solid accomplishment came in foreign affairs. After four days of talks between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow, the two sides made...
Lithuania quickly shifted toward flexibility. Seizing on an idea floated last month by French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Vilnius offered, in return for negotiations, to suspend all legislation it had passed since declaring independence. Prime Minister Prunskiene flew to Moscow to present the offer to Gorbachev. While she was still in the air, Gorbachev called the Lithuanian mission asking to see her as soon as she arrived. This was a gesture of compromise on his part, since he had insisted no talks were possible until the Lithuanians canceled their declaration of independence...
...cure for the cancer that afflicts him. Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation, Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal cheaper than the $100,000 it costs to suspend an entire body...
OTHERS in the Harvard community should put pressure on ROTC. At MIT, hundreds have rallied in support of the expelled ROTC student. At the University of Wisconsin, professors formed an anti-discrimination group that successfully encouraged the faculty to vote to suspend ROTC from campus in 1993 unless it admits gays and lesbians...
...akin to a Hungarian being mystified by American fireworks on July 4. For March 15 is the anniversary of the failed 1848 Hungarian revolution and the date previously favored by anti- Communist dissidents for illegal protests. A Forum leader explains that his party plans to press its rivals to suspend campaigning and join in a day of national remembrance on March 15. To American ears, such an admixture of * restraint and patriotism seems naive. Finally, Brown asks with exaggerated politeness, "What is your political objective...