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<P>At least Gorbachev got one last opportunity to kiss Reagan's ass, even if it was stone cold dead.</P>
<P>>Chris Dos - or anyone with some knowledge of this - could you ask </P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>some Soviet old-timers what it was like when Brezhnev died? Was
<DIV></DIV>>there a week of force-fed mourning and hysterical canonization in
<DIV></DIV>>every newspaper and broadcast outlet? Or are our nominally "private"
<DIV></DIV>>and "free" media doing better work than the state media in a
<DIV></DIV>>one-party state ever did?
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<DIV></DIV>>Doug
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