Bush Seeks Leadership Role;Gorbachev, Economic Survival;MIKHAIL GORBACHEV;Tense Times for Perestroika From: The Washington Post | Date: December 1, 1989| Author: Michael Dobbs | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

As Mikhail Gorbachev prepares for his shipboard summit with President Bush, the Soviet president is preoccupied by one overriding issue: how to keep his program of economic restructuring, or perestroika, on track back home.

The dramatic headlines from Eastern Europe have distracted attention from the growing economic crisis inside the Soviet Union.

Events such as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of hard-line Communist rule in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have c...

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