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Chernyak hit on a central irony. While Gorbachev seems to be relying more and more on the army, KGB and other conservatives to buttress his presidential powers and save what remains of perestroika, the right seems convinced that it can do very well without Gorbachev. Many of its members regard him with open contempt as a leader who has reduced the Soviet Union, once a proud superpower, to literal beggary, making it dependent on food and other economic aid from the West...
...says Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, who helped liquidate the cold war, in a fiery resignation. And the hard right is in fact well organized, while democrats splinter. Worse, popular support seems to be swinging toward a crackdown. -- The U.S. deputy commander of American forces in the gulf says his troops won't be ready for war on Jan. 15 -- hardly the message Bush wants Saddam Hussein to hear. -- Is Germany fated to be haunted by revelations about former spies...
...Well, when did you yourself see there was no future in communism...
...scholarship imbroglio so visibly unbalanced Bush -- and so glaringly spotlighted the Administration's inept handling of civil rights -- that it all but eclipsed Alexander's generally well-received nomination. The drama hurtled Administration officials into a rushed series of consultations. Result: a policy flip that flopped spectacularly. Civil rights leaders blasted the White House for threatening to slam expensive college doors in the faces of under- represented minority students. Conservative critics lambasted the decision for its failure to reject unambiguously racial preferences of any kind...
...Education nominee faces the unenviable task of explaining the minority-scholarship policy at his confirmation hearings next month. But if anyone can bring some sense of political harmony to the issue, it may well be the pragmatic Alexander, a musically versatile classical pianist who also likes to sit in with Tennessee washboard bands. Commenting last week on the financial-aid flap, he deftly declared, "I find it's often best to approach questions of this kind with a warm heart and common sense...