"It is high time the Bush Administration provide credible disincentives and impose serious financial and other sanctions for actions of repression being undertaken by Gorbachev to crush genuinely democratic forces, " said Roger W. Robinson, a Center Board Advisor.
Unease on this score can only be intensified by the behavior of the preferred candidates for such enlightened control, namely the fearmongering and hints of "nuclear blackmail" by Mikhail Gorbachev and his cadre of supporters.
President Bush will be under greater pressure to surrender American freedom of action on missile defense there than any U.S. leader since Ronald Reagan, who was tempted to do so by Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik two decades ago.
It is supported, in part, by an endowment from Mikhail Gorbachev's Nobel prize money.
These geezer Genie-stuffers have been joined by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Others, like the Bush administration, appear motivated by their determination to aid the Gorbachev regime no matter what the cost.
Also on 1 July, nine present or former close associates of Mikhail Gorbachev -- led by former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze -- agreed to organize a political opposition group.
At the Geneva summit of 1985, for example, Ronald Reagan on his advice did not confront Mikhail Gorbachev, but sat by a roaring fire with him while they exchanged ideas.
There is no getting around the fact that Mr. Reagan abhorred nuclear weapons and was sorely tempted by an offer made by then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986 to eliminate the two nations' nuclear arsenals.
After all, Talbott has with his pronouncements repeated a grievous error made by the Bush Administration concerning Mikhail Gorbachev: A Kremlin leader reputed to be committed to reform is made the determinant of U.S. policy toward Russia (and, for that matter, its neighbors and former satellites).
By 3 February, even the foremost Gorbachev apologist -- German Foreign Minister Hans Deitrich Genscher could no longer ignore the signs of Soviet repression.
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Webster, remarked in a similar vein on the growing challenge to U.S. counter-espionage capabilities by Soviet military and KGB operations under Gorbachev.
President Mikhail Gorbachev has no doubt been impressed by China's success in carrying out domestic economic liberalization and foreign trade reforms as well as establishing workable terms of agreement with the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) .
Putin is trading in his Mercedes Benz for a Russian-made Zil limousine, which was once a symbol of Soviet era power and used by Soviet leaders Nikita Krushchev, Leonid Breznev and Mikhail Gorbachev.
That said, the United States is confident that by working with its allies to use their leverage as Gorbachev spokesmen are suggesting -- albeit for a quite different purpose -- much can be accomplished.
What is more, in anticipation of the economic disruptions caused by the on-again-off-again approach of Mikhail Gorbachev to economic reform, many Soviets in recent months have systematically stocked their apartments with up to 2-3 years supply of select foodstuffs and other basic necessities.
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Also on 7 March, Gorbachev urged the USSR Supreme Soviet last week to forbid unauthorized foreign trips by members of the liberal parliamentary opposition, on the grounds that certain reform-minded deputies have been urging the West to deny credits to the central government.
Such statements by senior figures in the Bush Administration seem to designed to telegraph the bottom-line of the Helsinki summit: Gorbachev expects to be paid -- and paid handsomely -- for his country's "cooperation" in the Gulf crisis.
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