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...mood in the Gorbachev camp after Vilnius was bleak. Some wanted to leave him. Others stayed on, trying, as one put it, "to glue back together whatever we can" of perestroika. Life took on a faintly unreal quality. Between then and August, I saw a lot of one man who was, in the official hierarchy, among the top four or five leaders of the Soviet Union. (In fact his powers were more modest, though his access to information was extremely wide). We would sit in his massive office at the Kremlin, often for a couple of hours at a time...
...would have, I think. Not all, but enough to break the resistance. Ekho Moskvy, the outstanding news radio that the Putin administration has been doing its best to gut this past year, reported during the coup that some of the units moving into Moscow were in a very aggressive mood. As I heard this I was reminded of conversations a few months earlier, after the Vilnius killings. Then hospitable Airborne commanders based in Lithuania had remarked quietly over lunch that they could have "finished the job" - captured the Lithuanian parliament - in less than an hour. And the Lithuanians had been...
...talks, although Sharon insisted that Peres be chaperoned in any discussion by one of Israel's top generals - whose function, presumably, is not simply to ensure the foreign minister's personal protection. Still, Palestinian leaders have dismissed talking to Peres as a waste of time, and in the present mood of outrage, that may not be simply posturing...
...lush countryside to gaze at. These folks are going home. Trouble is, they don't want to. When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those on the bus are concerned, best seen in the rear-view mirror. They had hoped to travel through Mexico and cross its northern border...
...need to go forward in a full and comprehensive cleanup," says Pataki spokesman Michael McKeon. He might have also made it clear that he wants to be re-elected next year, and that he has a home along the river, in Garrison, N.Y. It did not help Pataki's mood that he felt slighted after lobbying Bush for a friend to be chosen for the ambassadorial posting in Rome, only to be brushed...