Editorials/Beauty and the Beasts/Gorby of Mayberry
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
GORBY OF MAYBERRY requently an international news Perhaps it is the sunny way in which I: story is received differently in dif- the American media cover the Soviet ferent parts of the world. Here...
...He filed an its beginning...
...momentous events in the Soviet Union anything that Moscow can do to end How serious are the challenges to Gor- A recent issue of the Economist, is arresting...
...bill requiring minority set-asides for the Eventually, after the show breaks for "disadvantaged...
...Here in Union that encouraged the buffoons in America the unfolding drama of Mik- the United States House of Representahail Gorbachev's reforms is a soothing tives to thrust aside serious minds and story...
...But regime's dire economic problems...
...The unrest will turn to censoring the press and sup- monious meeting of the Central Com- and British coverage of this summer's go on, for there does not seem to be pressing Gorbachev's democratization...
...A generation of dubious programs as day-care centers Americans accustomed to television sit- and minority set-asides...
...The group backing Mr...
...It is the fate now besets Gorbachev on all sides...
...mer's strikes among Soviet coal miners highlighted the worst season of in- Boris Yeltsin leads a group that chides stalled one-man, one-party rule...
...This sumica...
...Here we take the stories of Soviet Essential weapons were cut, along with strikes, ethnic unrest, and ideological research and development funds...
...In London this summer the transform this summer's deliberations drama evoked alarm...
...Ligachev and the dustrial unrest in Russia since Lenin's him for going too slowly...
...I suppose this means a deodorant commercial, and perhaps that henceforth Congress is decreeing a bran cereal commercial too, the that the American military must, in screen will brighten with a happy end- every battle, ensure that a prescribed ing: Mikhail and the smiling Gorba- ratio of the "disadvantaged" be killed, chev family, standing on the front injured, or decorated...
...porch, all waving back at their Ameri- Meanwhile, in other parts of the can audience...
...It is not specifically food shortages...
...That is not particularly good news, just the power that lurks behind LigaIn the Soviet Parliament criticism has become fiercer than at any time for the group most likely to gain from chev that makes me worry...
...mittee of the Communist party...
...since Stalin ousted Trotsky and in- Communist party decline is the very of reform in China...
...President otic pork-barrel programs were slipped Gorbachev's commanding presence in into the budget, as were such militarily Moscow reassures us...
...Yes, the Honor-corns and docudramas—all with reli- able Nick Mavroules (D-MA), who is able beginnings, middles, and ends— no friend to military spending, has has arrived at the judgment that Gor- taken an expansive interest in the milibachev has brought perestroika through tary this time around...
...over the defense budget into high farce...
...Idisquabbling cum grano sails...
...The ethnic violence in the Cau- more ominous Yegor Ligachev leads chev had been sorely pressed by Liga- military...
...casus and in Central Asia continues a group that forthrightly urges a re- chev and his supporters in an acri- The difference between American and with growing fury...
...If the American press is it short of resorting to the military, an bachev...
...The far report went on to reveal that Gorba- champions of repression, the Soviet time...
...The Soviet Union has world the news from the Soviet Union been transformed into a Slavic Amer- is having a sobering effect...
...Well, while we Americans con- the British newsweekly that is prob- right that things are going swimmingly expedient that will only exacerbate the sumed our press's good news from ably the world's most informative, for reform, I shall be grateful...
...Now he is leading it and amendment to the military spending his country through an exciting middle...
...reported: "The battle in the Kremlin ty...
...More- Moscow, a lead story on the front page gloomily reports a growing dissatisfac- somehow I feel that the British tone of over, anger is spreading over shortages, of the Sunday Times in London tion within the Soviet Communist par- skepticism is better justified...
Vol. 22 • October 1989 • No. 10
