Editorials
CONTENTS Volume CXVIlI, Number 3 Correspondence 82 Editorials 83 Daunting questions: DavidJ. O'Brien 85 Chronic ambivalence: A. James Rudin 86 Agostino Casaroli: J. Bryan Hehir 88 When...
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...Meantime, however, a drama of even greater global consequence is playing out in the Soviet Union...
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...The KGB has assumed broad powers to investigate businesses and individual citizens...
...But the commanders remain in place, and the policy that put them there remains unchanged...
...While we watch missiles and bombers roaring toward Baghdad, Patriots rising to intercept Scuds, and tanks rumbling toward Kuwait, the Soviet military speaks forebodingly, and threateningly, of a spirit of anarchy spreading throughout their country...
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...Merely to postpone the planned U.S.-Soviet summit, merely to threaten constriction of promised aid, merely to protest violations of human rights--taken singly or together, these are not enough...
...Armed troops join the police in patrolling city streets...
...And the unelected leadership of the Soviet Union including Mikhail Gorbachev, "Man of the Decade"--responds by blaming local commanders for civilian deaths...
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...O'Brien 85 Chronic ambivalence: A. James Rudin 86 Agostino Casaroli: J. Bryan Hehir 88 When we were poor together: Abigail McCarthy 89 Eastern Europe's troubled transition: John Feffer 9 l Poetry: Ron Overton 92 One religion wasn't enough: Martin Young 94 Art: Lee Siegel 96 Stage: Gerald Weales 99 Screen: Richard Alleva 100 The fall of the ironic curtain: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels 102 Vaclav Maly: The world of those below: Liz McCloskey 103 BOOKS Cuba: A Journey/Cuba and the United States: Robert E. White 108 A Secret World: James J. Gill 109 STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Paul Baumann Production Editor: Patricia Mazzola Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Movies: Richard Alleva Stage: Gerald Weales Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...In our view, nevertheless, more can be done than has been done at this writing...
...CONTENTS Volume CXVIlI, Number 3 Correspondence 82 Editorials 83 Daunting questions: DavidJ...
...Much of the Soviet media, glasnost forgotten, spreads disinformation about "fascist" forces seeking ascendancy...
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...Politically, there is no democratic tradition on which to rely, not even on the modest scale of prewar Poland or Czechoslovakia...
...And suddenly, the hope that a reforming Soviet Union would be a reliable partner with the other developed nations in construction of a rational and peaceful new world order is dimming, taken over by fears of what either a newly aggressive or precipitously dissolving Soviet Union--still equipped with thousands of nuclear weapons, still with hundreds of thousands of troops billeted in Eastern Europe--might bring to pass...
...After the sudden resignation of Eduard Shevardnadze, the most trustworthy voice in the Soviet leadership, and his warning of a re-emerging dictatorship, Gorbachev appears increasingly to favor, or be in the control of, a small group of hardline advisers...
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...Though the strangling of infant democracies in the Baltic, should it continue, might well be considered a crime of greater moment than the invasion of Kuwait, no one is proposing or will propose comparable action, whether economic or military, to bring the Soviet authorities back on line...
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...No one ever said reform of the Soviet Union would be easy...
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...and the West have few options to consider in the face of this dismaying development...
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...politically, the trend is toward retrenchment and the reconcen- tration of power...
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...It is an instant axiom, already worn to triteness, that the U.S...
...Moving from an entrenched command economy to a socially responsible system heavily reliant on entrepreneurship is a task to boggle the best of minds...
...On the economy, however, Gorbachev has sent mixed signals from the beginning...
...Soviet soldiers and "black berets" are using deadly force against unarmed civilians to intimidate the elected governments of the Baltic republics...
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