Indeed, on Dec. 23, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov with whose organization Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has become ever more closely aligned in recent days actually quoted the U.S. secretary of state approvingly on the question of the central authorities in Moscow setting reform aside in favor of restoring order.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Too clever by half

Indeed, on Dec. 23, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov -- with whose organization Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has become ever more closely aligned in recent days -- actually quoted the U.S. secretary of state approvingly on the question of the central authorities in Moscow setting reform aside in favor of restoring order.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Too clever by half