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Bowing to legislators' demands a day beforea crucial confidence votein the Duma,Russian President Boris Yeltsinfired three security ministers for bungling their duties in the southern Russia hostage crisis. Yeltsin, whom TIME's Bruce Nelan calls "a very good politician in terms of what looks good to the public," tried what has been widely considered as a political ploy to appease the Duma. "Everyone is assuming this is a very cynical political move, especially since Yeltsin didn't fire (Defense Minister Pavel) Grachev, one of his oldest supporters, as the Duma wished. But Yeltsin also had good reason...
Shattuck also disputed a claim in the unionletter that managers at the Office of theUniversity Publisher failed to remedy dangerousworking conditions that workers brought to theirattention. Shattuck said the University Publisherwas never notified of the safety violations beforea federal inspection found the problems...
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