Soviets Ask U.S. To Stick It To American Taxpayers As Banks Won’t Take Any Exposure On Loans To Moscow
(Washington, D.C.): This week, on the eve of the Moscow summit, Soviet officials requested that the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)...
Month: August 1991
Western Aid To What Used To Be The Soviet Union? Guidelines On What, When And How
(Washington, D.C.): The break-up of the Soviet empire is giving rise to a circumstance that bears directly on the feasibility...
The ‘Black Colonel’ — Down, But Not Out: Alksnis Mulls Potemkin Coup, Sees Comeback
Col. Viktor Alksnis, one of the most prominent spokesmen for the Soviet old guard and leader of the Soyuz faction...
NO MORE COMMUNIST COUPS: THE WEST MUST DO FOR CROATIA WHAT THE EC JUST DID FOR THE BALTICS
(Washington, D.C.): The European Community distinguished itself this week by filling the vacuum in leadership created by the Bush Administration's...
BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO’S GOT MOSCOW’S NUCLEAR BUTTON? RENEGOTIATE START TO GIVE SOVIET DEMOCRATS CONTROL
(Washington, D.C.): The recent, abortive Soviet coup has stimulated an intense -- but largely uninformed -- discussion about Soviet nuclear...
Yelena Bonner Subscribes To Potemkin Coup Theory; Center Joins Her In Call For Gorbachev’s Resignation
(Washington, D.C.): Last night, the conscience of the Soviet Union and widow of Andrei Sakharov, Dr. Yelena Bonner, added her...
THE REAL SOVIET DEMOCRATS ARE ON A ROLL: THE WEST MUST NOT HELP GORBACHEV RESIST PRESSURE FOR CHANGE
(Washington, D.C.): During his first day back in the Soviet capital after the coup, Mikhail Gorbachev dashed the earnest hopes...
Center Calls For Bush Apology For Calling Potemkin Coup Theory ‘Ridiculous’
(Washington, D.C.): On 21 August 1991, President Bush contemptuously dismissed as "ridiculous" the statement by Zviad Gamsckhurdia, President of the...
GORBACHEV MUST MAKE A CLEAN BREAK WITH HIS ERSTWHILE ALLIES BEFORE HE WARRANTS WESTERN SUPPORT, AID
(Washington, D.C.): Lest the end of the coup in the USSR -- and the imminent restoration of Mikhail Gorbachev to...
GEORGE ORWELL BUSH ON GORBACHEV-THE-DEMOCRAT: SAYING IT DON’T MAKE IT SO
(Washington, D.C.): In a particularly unsettling statement, President Bush today gave the back of his hand to one of the...
NOT ‘ON HOLD’: GATES, EAGLEBURGER WANT THE RESURGENT SOVIET MILITARY TO GET EXPANDED ACCESS TO WESTERN HI-TECH
(Washington, D.C.): Within recent months, the United States has acceded to the demands of Germany and others among its partners...
A ‘POTEMKIN COUP’? GORBACHEV’S RESTORATION WOULD MEAN NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THE OLD SOVIET GUARD
(Washington, D.C.): As President Bush, Chancellor Kohl and others in the West demand that Mikhail Gorbachev be returned to power,...
BUSH’S SOVIET CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST: URGENT COURSE CORRECTION REQUIRED IN LIGHT OF KREMLIN CRISIS
(Washington, D.C.): The announcement that a "State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR" led by career Communist...
AT LEAST LET’S NOT PROVIDE THE SOVIET MILITARY ANY MORE STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES!
(Washington, D.C.): In less than two weeks, the United States and other members of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export...
‘Fit To Print’: Bush Has No Excuse For Continuing To Ignore Soviet Non-Creditworthiness
(Washington, D.C.): Today's New York Times features a front-page story updating information published by the Center for Security Policy a...
Banks In US Shun A Loan To Moscow
By KEITH BRADSHERThe New York Times, August 15, 1991 American banks have not put up any money to finance Soviet...