Give Peace a What?
The Wall Street Journal, 09/11/91 In explaining the U.S.'s desire to postpone $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel, Secretary...
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...
Pour It On
By WILLIAM SAFIRE The New York Times, September 2, 1991 Some of us remember the imperious way Mikhail Gorbachev cut...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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,...