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Bush was initially distrustful of Gorbachev and critical of Ronald Reagan's "sentimental" attachment to him, but ended up by clinging irrationally to Gorbachev to the exclusion of his rival, Boris Yeltsin, whom he dismissed as an unruly boor. From the authors' account, Bush got no help at all from his top advisers Scowcroft and Robert Gates, who offered him unremittingly bad advice about what was happening in the Soviet Union. In Bush's first year, Scowcroft warned that in Gorbachev, the U.S. faced the "clever bear syndrome." Then two years later he portrayed Gorbachev as a Soviet Lincoln standing...
British, French and U.S. ambassadors to the U.N. were instructed to consult their Chinese and Russian colleagues on the Security Council about preparing an ultimatum for Saddam. Bush spoke with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, while Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger contacted his Chinese counterpart. With their acquiescence, the ultimatum was delivered on Jan. 6, and a day later the allies settled on a limited strike. To keep Saddam guessing, they fueled press speculation that the attack might be massive...
Formidable as it is, this list is not necessarily complete. The fall of Boris Yeltsin and the accession of a hard-line nationalist government in Russia, a new outbreak of racial rioting in the U.S. -- any of a dozen unpredictable developments could suddenly sweep almost everything else off Clinton's agenda. But even if nothing of the sort happens, Clinton still faces monumental decisions. Welcome, Mr. President, to the White House -- and the real world...
...milk and vodka -- a beverage that many Russians prefer to view, and imbibe, as a staple. In a move denounced by some as antireform, Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin attacked hyperinflation by declaring a cap on manufacturers' profits on basic goods. Regressive or not, it had better work fast, or Yeltsin may find himself emerging from April's referendum with his presidential powers drastically curtailed -- and with no hands to wring...
...economists maintain that Clinton appears to be combining contradictory ideas that will cancel each other out. Paul Ellwood, a pediatric neurologist and health-policy expert who helped develop the managed-care idea, insists that his model cannot work in conjunction with price controls. Says he: "That would be like Yeltsin saying, 'We're going to introduce market forces here in Russia, but we're going to start out with the government setting the prices.' Price controls are not compatible with price competition." In Ellwood's system, costs would be controlled by competition among health-care suppliers to serve the members...