Word: yazov
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...have been reinforced by the presence of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico, who was in the White House Tuesday morning to meet with Bush. As the coup unfolded, Bush briefed Salinas on the developments; not surprisingly, the President did not do the same for General Dmitri Yazov, the Soviet Defense Minister, who visited the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon...
Others who accompanied Gorbachev to the scene included Russian federation Premier Alexander V. Vlasov, Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov, and Health Minister Yevgeny I. Chazov...
This week's Central Committee meeting and the parliament session were called in haste, indicating Gorbachev may have decided to act before opposition to the personnel changes could gel. The meetings brought officials like Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov scurrying back to Moscow from trips abroad...
Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov took this line in March when he met Carlucci in Berne, Switzerland, for the first extended get-together between American and Soviet defense chiefs. Carlucci's report: "I said, 'Fine, I hear you. But I do not see that ((change in doctrine)) reflected in force structure, and I do not see it reflected in your activities around the world. Until we do, it behooves us not to change our current policy.' " If the Soviets someday suit action to words, a mutual reduction in conventional forces as well as nuclear weapons could finally save both sides some...
Gorbachev seems to have come up against a similar problem from his own good soldiers. He handpicked Yazov in May 1987, after a quixotic West German peacenik landed in Red Square in a single-engine Cessna (in effect, a piloted cruise missile). That event gave Gorbachev an excuse to purge the Defense Ministry. Ever since the Reykjavik summit in October 1986, Akhromeyev has worn his civvies and served as chairman of the Soviets' arms-control "working group," impressing the American team. Carlucci and Yazov held their own unprecedented meeting in Bern on March 16 and 17, and Akhromeyev will visit...