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- <text id=91TT2156>
- <title>
- Sep. 30, 1991: American Notes:East-West
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 35
- American Notes
- EAST-WEST
- Red Meets Crimson
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government played host to
- an unusual crop of students last week. Twenty-eight senior Soviet
- military officers--generals, admirals and colonels--assembled
- for a two-week crash course on the relationship between the armed
- forces and the civilian government in the U.S. "Democracy is not
- an easy form of government for military professionals," said
- General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We
- subordinate ourselves totally to the will of the people and their
- elected representatives."
- </p>
- <p> The failed Soviet coup nearly dismantled the conference. The
- invitation was accepted last March by Soviet Defense Minister
- Dmitri Yazov, who became one of the coup organizers. Yazov was
- subsequently yanked from power, but the military men still made
- the trip. During their classes younger members of the group tended
- to accept the American explanation of recent world events. Older
- ones stuck with harder ideological positions. Such differences did
- not prevent the entire group from jumping up to do the "wave" at a
- Red Sox baseball game in their final week.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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