WHEN DEUTSCHE BANK TALKS SOVIET DEBT DEFAULT, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION SHOULD LISTEN
(Washington, D.C.): Western creditors have effectively been put on official notice: The Soviet government will be defaulting on at least...
National Security Policy
Baker’s Whistlestop Campaign For Freedom’s Foes: Next Stop Belgrade?
(Washington, D.C.): With his present trip to Beijing, Secretary of State James Baker seems determined to leave no stone unturned...
CHENEY TO ISRAEL: THANKS FOR DESTROYING IRAQI REACTOR; WILL U.S. TAKE 10 YEARS TO ACCEPT ISRAELI STANCE ON PEACE?
(Washington, D.C.): This week, U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney once again displayed the courage and vision for which he became...
IT’S OFFICIAL: GORBACHEV IS BETTING ON BUSH TO PROP UP MOSCOW CENTER, COERCE REPUBLICS ON UNION
(Washington, D.C.): Rarely in recent memory has a diplomatic punch been more clearly telegraphed than that Mikhail Gorbachev intends to...
OCTOBER’S ‘HUNT FOR RED MONEY: CENTER JOINS BONNER IN DENOUNCING NEW AID TO GORBACHEV AND MOSCOW CENTER
(Washington, D.C.): Even as the Bush Administration is giving sympathetic consideration to Mikhail Gorbachev's latest request for massive foreign aid,...
THE SOVIET FINANCIAL CRISIS: ROBINSON CHALLENGES YAVLINSKY/G-7 DEBT RELIEF STRATEGY
(Washington, D.C.): In testimony this morning before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Debt, chaired by Senator Bill Bradley, on...
AND NOW, MOSCOW’S RIPOSTE TO THE BUSH DISARMAMENT PLAN: BETTER LOOK THIS ‘GIFT HORSE’ IN THE MOUTH
(Washington, D.C.): On 5 October, Mikhail Gorbachev responded to President Bush's dramatic arms reduction announcement of the week before. Like...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #4: BUSH’S MIXED SIGNALS ON SOVIET AID PUT U.S. TAXPAYERS IN HARM’S WAY
(Washington, D.C.): In his 24 September meeting in New York with Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin, President Bush reportedly discouraged...
Gaffney To Congress: Vote For ‘Tallinn Process,’ Not Moscow Center’s ‘Common Economic Space’
In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee today, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., director of the Center for Security...
The U.S.-Soviet Trade Agreement: Overtaken By Events
Submitted Testimony by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. Director of the Center for Security Policy before the House Ways and Means...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #3: BAKER ON THE NEED FOR STRUCTURAL SOVIET REFORM — ‘NEVER MIND’
(Washington, D.C.): En route to Moscow on 10 September, Secretary of State James Baker disclosed that -- as far as...
BUSH SHOWS HIS HAND: STANCE ON ISRAELI HOUSING GUARANTEES COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE, BODES ILL FOR THE FUTURE
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush has reportedly begun to consider alternatives to his ill-advised decision announced last week postponing U.S. government...
SOVIET TRANSFORMATION WATCH #2: THERE’S BAD NEWS…AND THERE’S GHOULISH NEWS
(Washington, D.C.): Events of the past week have raised serious questions about the prospects for a genuinely democratic transformation in...
SOVIET TRANSFORMATION WATCH #1: WEST SCRAMBLES TO GIVE RECONFIGURED MOSCOW CENTER LIFE-SUPPORT
(Washington, D.C.): Even as Secretary of State James Baker in his press conference today tried to suggest complete U.S. indifference...
Center Announces ‘Soviet Transformation Watch’ : Accept No Substitutes For Structural Change
The Center for Security Policy today announced the initiation of a new series of analyses aimed at monitoring the extent...
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)...