The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
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32. THE FIFTH MAN PART FOUR On 20 January 1989 George Bush was sworn in as President on the West Front of the Capitol. As one of ...
364 THE END OF THE COLD WAR appreciated his potential and, as consolation, nominated him as Am- bassador to the United Nations i ...
THE FIFTH MAN 365 Gorbachëv to wait until he established whether continuity in policy was truly in the national interest. Shultz ...
366 THE END OF THE COLD WAR size of Soviet conventional forces in Europe. In Genscher’s opinion, he should also immediately cond ...
THE FIFTH MAN 367 preserve the ‘socialist basis’ of the East European states, but not in the dominating fashion that Kissinger w ...
368 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Baklanov and Ivan Belousov, working with data from the KGB and the International Labour Organization ...
THE FIFTH MAN 369 the CIA’s Fritz Ermath to examine the following question: ‘How can we make [inter-continental ballistic missil ...
370 THE END OF THE COLD WAR suggested that their best option would be to invite leading members of the Congress to Moscow. He po ...
THE FIFTH MAN 371 becoming ungovernable. Shevardnadze was the only Politburo member who had the knowledge and experience to calm ...
372 THE END OF THE COLD WAR hardly unpredicted – was that ‘our strategic success is incomplete, inconclusive and reversible’. Th ...
THE FIFTH MAN 373 The truth was obvious. The USSR had been caught in breach of its obligations, and the potential for internatio ...
374 THE END OF THE COLD WAR policy in its final variant arrived on Bush’s desk on 13 May. Divisions about the future of Soviet ‘ ...
THE FIFTH MAN 375 United Nations General Assembly. Bush suggested that, for the talks between them, they should meet on an infor ...
376 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Shevardnadze flew to Washington to explore the possibilities of new agreements with Bush and Baker o ...
THE FIFTH MAN 377 answered that the Soviet leadership was averse to the use of force. He called for the disbandment of NATO and ...
33. THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA The Soviet preoccupation in international affairs remained with policy towards America and Western ...
THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 379 Foreign Affairs Minister Qian Qichen to Moscow and assured him of Gorbachëv’s desire for a rapproc ...
380 THE END OF THE COLD WAR condition, the Japanese would look favourably upon Soviet overtures for economic assistance. To Shev ...
THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 381 USSR’s alliance with Vietnam was anyway becoming a troubled one. The Vietnamese leaders objected w ...
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