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...words of Mikhail Gorbachev last week, "a faithful servant of our party and people, a staunch champion of the ideals of Communism." That final tribute to Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was in keeping with the official adulation that enveloped the late Soviet leader during the 13 months that he ruled in the Kremlin. But there was always a hollow ring to the praise...
Both sides were adroit enough at small talk to placate the headline-hungry press. In a lively, candid meeting with reporters before the first session, Karpov acknowledged that Mikhail Gorbachev was demonstrating leadership even before Chernenko died. Said Karpov: "He presided over the meeting of the Politburo that approved (my) instructions." Karpov ducked, however, a follow- up question on whether Chernenko had been expected to remain alive throughout | the talks. The Soviets ushered photographers gracefully into and out of the opening of their session. The U.S., by contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three...
...system is the main barrier to reinvigorating the economy relations, above all economic ones . . . We should, we are bound to attain within the briefest period the most advanced scientific and technical positions, the highest world level in the productivity of social labor." --MIKHAIL GORBACHEV...
...inaugural speech to the Communist Party Central Committee last week, Mikhail Gorbachev got right to the point: his highest priority would be nothing less than a total transformation of the deeply troubled Soviet economy. That may be a far bigger task than any Kremlin chief, even a young and energetic one, can handle, because the challenge goes far beyond the realm of economics and technology, to the nature of the Soviet state itself. In order to achieve his bold aim, Gorbachev must first deal with a formidable, intractable and historically durable rival-cum-partner--the Soviet bureaucracy...
Months ago when Mikhail Gorbachev began to move more visibly around the power circuit of the Soviet Union, U.S. intelligence analysts started to feed background on him into Ronald Reagan's morning reading. There was an assumption among the experts that something was bubbling up in the Kremlin's gerontocracy, whose members were expiring with discouraging regularity. After 67 years there were signs that the old group of Soviet leaders, steeped in the traditions of the revolution and shaped by the horrors of World War II, was giving way to a new generation...