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Yeltsin's war to crush secessionists in Chechnya hasn't eased western minds. And should Yeltsin fall, the potential of Russian nationalists--whether former communists or protofascists--to rise to power on Russia's economic woes remains a real danger...
...wait. Where was this zeal during the vote on Cambridge rent control? Are these the same students who slept through the Republican takeover of Congress, who think that Chechnya is the latest version of Tetris...
Yavlinsky said 85 percent of the Russian people are against the war in Chechnya...
...voice also projects extraordinary strength--he can speak in thunderclaps. But when he was interviewed recently in Tiraspol by TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and reporter Yuri Zarakhovich, Lebed's manner was calm even as he denounced the ``windbags'' running the Russian army, proclaimed that the crackdown on Chechnya must have been ordered up by ``dilettantes or madmen'' and mused about running the country himself someday. ``I don't really want to,'' he said, but ``I do not rule out the possibility that I might be forced to it out of necessity...
...summit meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Kazakhstan two weeks ago when he was unable to walk unassisted, but last week he competently delivered a speech to a joint session of the Russian parliament, in which he blamed the military for the heavy losses sustained in Chechnya. Still, his behavior remains erratic, the war continues, and some Russians are looking elsewhere for leadership. When one of Lebed's aides was told that in Moscow the general was spoken of as ``a possible savior of the motherland,'' the aide quickly countered, ``What do you mean, `possible...