Failed Coup in Soviet Union
After the Administration’s weak response to the Tian An Men Square massacre in China three years ago and our mixed signals to Saddam Hussein in the days before he invaded Kuwait, should we be surprised that the Soviet coup leaders thought they could get away with their terrible plot?
KRISTINE S. BREESE
Los Angeles
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