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...Soviets even decorated the corridor walls with framed photographs of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva under the neatly stenciled label AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS. Soviet officials offered daily briefings for news-starved correspondents. "I welcome you with all my heart to this press center," said the grayhaired Soviet propagandist Albert Vlasov with perhaps a trifle too much earnestness...
...clear who Gorbachev was against, it was less certain who he was for. Russian prime minister Alexander Vlasov, the party candidate, was withdrawn before the first round of balloting, after his inept delivery of an annual report. His replacement, Ivan Polozkov, was so hard-line that many Gorbachev supporters could not vote for him, and he lost twice. Vlasov was trotted out again for the third round. On the night before he left for the summit, Gorbachev called a meeting of some 400 Deputies at the party Central Committee headquarters and suggested that they vote for Vlasov...
...pretend to be populists but who don't really represent the people's interest at all." He clearly had in mind Yeltsin, who was politicking vigorously for the post of the presidency of the Russian federation. Gorbachev lobbied personally on behalf of the federation's current Prime Minister, Alexander Vlasov, and accused Yeltsin of favoring a "collapse" of the Soviet Union. But at the end of the week, Vlasov withdrew his candidacy after a verbal drubbing from speakers at the Russian Congress of People's Deputies. The only serious remaining rival to Yeltsin was Ivan Polozkov, the conservative party boss...
...flashes of frustration as he stalked the Kremlin anterooms in the glare of TV lights were understandable. "In politics," he grumbled, "the public doesn't accept pluralism. Perestroika depends on public opinion, and it is conservative." But Gorbachev's candidate for the presidency of the Russian federation, Alexander Vlasov, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and prime minister of the federation, hardly seems the < stirring leader needed to carry out his boss's vision. When Vlasov delivered an hour-long report last week, it was so plodding that not even Gorbachev seemed to be listening...
Head counters in the Russian parliament say the 1,050 attending Deputies are divided almost evenly into three groups: Yeltsin supporters, Vlasov loyalists and the undecided. Even the reformers have mixed feelings about the erratic, boastful populism of Yeltsin. He is, however, a vivid alternative to Vlasov, an organization man who is considered a Gorbachev puppet. "Yeltsin is a man of many contradictions," says Nikolai Yershov, a Deputy from Borovichovsky, "but a vote for him is the only guarantee that there will be no returning to the past. He's the only guy who can look Gorbachev...