The Washington Post, May 29th, 1990
ALMOST EVERYONE is beating up on Mikhail Gorbachev as he heads for Washington for his first full-fledged summit with George Bush. It is hard to think of any summit participant since or before Richard Nixon in his Watergate period who came to a major foreign policy event laboring under such a heavy burden of domestic calamity. Mr. Gorbachev, it is now commonly said, has been consumed by the process he invented. He underestimated the depths of his society's discontents and overestimated his capacity to control them. Not even the anxious applause that has poured in on him from foreign quarters, i...
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