Word: yevgeni
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...deployed along the Persian Gulf, there were widespread rumors and speculation that the offensive would start soon after this week's congressional elections -- or before Christmas, or early in the new year. In contrast, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev declared that any "military solution" was "unacceptable" after his personal envoy, Yevgeni Primakov, returned from a second exploratory mission to Baghdad. There Primakov claimed to find Saddam "more disposed to a political solution," a development invisible to everyone else...
...force must be approved by the United Nations Security Council, a position the U.S. Congress tends to favor as well. For a while last week it seemed that the Soviet President might be testing the climate for a settlement based on a partial Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. Yevgeni Primakov, a Gorbachev aide who had visited Saddam in Baghdad three weeks ago, met with Bush on Friday and told him the Iraqi leader would not withdraw from Kuwait prior to negotiations, as U.S. policy now demands. Bush's reply: "Tell him I am not flexible either...
...address the Arab-Israeli conflict, a proposal the U.S. supports but only if it follows an Iraqi withdrawal. French President Francois Mitterrand said last week that events had given a "new actuality" to the notion of a conference. Meeting with Saddam in Baghdad two weeks ago, Soviet envoy Yevgeni Primakov dangled the possibility of a Middle East conference -- with both Soviet and U.S. participation -- if the Iraqi leader left Kuwait. Though there was no evidence whatsoever that Moscow's offer had Washington's blessing, Primakov is a trusted confidant of Mikhail Gorbachev's and planned last week to brief Bush...
Another diplomatic tourist in the Middle East stirred more apprehension in Washington. Yevgeni Primakov, a Soviet expert on the Middle East, visited Baghdad and the Jordanian capital of Amman as a personal representative of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Ostensibly his main purpose in Iraq was to arrange for the departure of 5,174 Soviet citizens, presumably including some military advisers, whose continued presence has been an irritant to the U.S. But Gorbachev's press secretary Vitali Ignatenko, visiting the U.S., spoke to TIME about a possible Middle East conference in which "all the problems of the region could be resolved...
...YEVGENI PRIMAKOV...