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...main weapon" for resolving any issue is "honest dialogue." His claims were buttressed in Moscow, where Lithuanian leaders had gone to seek a meeting with Gorbachev, a sign that the ongoing Soviet pressure campaign was bearing fruit. The Soviet leader refused to see the delegation but sent Aleksandr Yakovlev, a close ally and member of his presidential council. By Thursday, however, Soviet troops had moved into the chief prosecutor's office in the Lithuanian capital. They expelled staff members loyal to the former prosecutor, who was dismissed by Moscow two weeks ago and replaced by a successor chosen to enforce...
...such patriots, the greatest threat to the motherland comes from "radical liberals" who are plotting to seize power. The nationalists point fingers at members of the reformist Interregional Group of parliamentary Deputies, such as Moscow populist Boris Yeltsin and historian Yuri Afanasyev, and at staunch glasnost editors like Yegor Yakovlev of the weekly Moscow News. But Enemy No. 1 remains Politburo liberal Alexander Yakovlev. They have never forgiven him for a 1972 article that blasted writers who glorified Russia's peasant past -- a risky political act that earned Yakovlev exile as Ambassador to Canada until he returned to Moscow...
...three-day ordeal was over came shortly before 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday, when the television lights in the auditorium of the Foreign Ministry suddenly flashed on. For three hours the Moscow press corps had been waiting impatiently for a delegation of party officials, led by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev and Vice President Anatoli Lukyanov, to bring news of the final hours of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program of political and economic reforms. The question...
There was no need to ask. As the Kremlin emissaries filed onto the stage, the answer was written all over their faces. The normally dour Lukyanov let a grin slip. The balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
When will the Soviet Union become a multiparty democracy? Given the current Communist monopoly on power and a tentacular organizational structure reaching across the country, probably not any time soon. Yakovlev cautioned last week against drawing too many comparisons between events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, pointing out that most of those countries enjoyed a tradition of multiparty politics. One interim stage might be the formation of national fronts, uniting Communist factions. Groups advocating "fascism, terrorism, militarism and nationalist extremism" will not meet the criterion for registration, but it is unclear just who will decide who qualifies...