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...hard-line Kremlinologist who advises Reagan agrees. "While they are not united on domestic policy, except in the need for some kind of reform, they are united on foreign policy," he says of the Soviet leaders. "They really do need a grand detente, and Gorbachev has a considerable mandate to get it." In particular, Gorbachev seems to have the support of the Soviet military. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief of the Soviet general staff, accompanied Shevardnadze to the meeting in Geneva and, by Shultz's account, was a "key person" in working out the verification measures that clinched the INF deal...
Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said he would root for the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series. "The Reds always win," said the noted Kremlinologist...
...display their displeasure with what they feel is recalcitrance by the Reagan Administration on arms control and other issues. They also wanted to punish and intimidate the Western press in Moscow, which they feel has not taken their peace initiatives seriously enough. The arrest of Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that the KGB staged the Lenin Hills charade without consulting...
...suffered some personnel problems under Poindexter, notably the loss to the State Department of Jack Matlock, a respected Kremlinologist. Another highly regarded key aide, Donald Fortier, has been seriously ill and was belatedly replaced last week by Alton Keel, an experienced bureaucrat who most recently excelled as the executive director of the commission that investigated the Challenger disaster. Overall, however, most observers feel that Poindexter has strengthened the staff since taking charge...
What did all the moving and shaking mean? One thing for certain: less than four months after he took office as General Secretary of the Communist Party following Chernenko's death, Gorbachev, 54, was consolidating his power, as one U.S. Kremlinologist put it, "faster than any previous leader in Soviet history." In April the urbane, affable Soviet leader had gained three new places for his supporters on a newly expanded, 13-member Politburo. The latest shake-up was apparently aimed at giving Gorbachev the same kind of free hand, and perhaps a wider range of policy choices, in his dealings...