The dramatic changes in Moscow and throughout Russia and the other Soviet Republics require appropri- ately dramatic changes in America's policies towards the Soviet Union. No longer can the Bush Administra- tion remain reluctant and begrudging in its support of Boris Yeltsin and other democratic reformers. No longer can the United States balk at recognizing that power and legitimacy have shifted to the Republics fi-om the central government of the U.S.S.R. Washington now must begin leading the international response to last week's dramatic events. Washington must tilt away fiom the Center-as the central Soviet government is known-and tilt toward the Republics. Washington must abandon its determination to preserve a unified U.S.S.R. and begin endorsing independence for the Republics. No longer must America warri the Republics, as George Bush did just a few weeks ago in Kiev, about "suicidal nationalism" and lecture the reformers that "freedom is not the same as