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...
National Security Policy
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
New York Times Joins Center In Calling For US Leadership To Halt Serbian Aggression
Increasingly brazen Serbian efforts to broaden and consolidate communist control over a forcibly reconfigured Yugoslavia have prompted the New York...
No ‘Thanks’ Due Syria, Iran: U.S. View of Sponsors of Terrorism a Prelude to October Peace Conference Fiasco?
(Washington, D.C.): In the past few days, President Bush has acted in a manner that can only reinforce Israeli concerns...
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: THE SERBIAN DRESS-REHEARSAL FOR THE COMING CRISIS IN EUROPE
(Washington, D.C.): In recent days, the naked aggression of totalitarian forces in Yugoslavia, the threatening stance of their foreign allies...
Help With Soviet Conversion Is Risky
BY: Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Defense News , August 5, 1991 One of many bad ideas emerging as the Bush...