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...tycoons to return to power the one man they believed could protect their interests. Men in the Chernomyrdin camp acknowledge that Berezovsky played a major role in encouraging the cautious former Prime Minister to come out publicly last summer with his plan to run for President in 2000. They confirm that the two met to discuss the future shortly before Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and his whole Cabinet. Unlikely to be anything but lackluster on the stump, Chernomyrdin would now gain enormous advantage in a potential electoral struggle with more dynamic campaigners like retired General Alexander Lebed if Yeltsin were...
After six years in Clinton's White House, Gore has acquired complications galore. TIME has confirmed that Attorney General Janet Reno is reconsidering whether to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton-Gore fund-raising operation in 1996, including whether Gore made illegal telephone solicitations from the White House. Last December, Reno shut down a probe of about 45 Gore fund-raising calls on grounds that he had sought only so-called soft money--party-building funds--for the Democratic National Committee. After the cash came in, DNC officials funneled some of it into "hard-money...
...much the child of his times, too relativistic, hedonistic, elitist? Was his wife more a superlawyer and schemer than the domestic icon expected in her role? With a reassuring sense of symbolism, Clinton overcame most of these suspicions. By now the symbols have abruptly swung in ways that confirm all that was felt about him and worse. It was always silly to say Clinton had stained the Lincoln bedroom by letting supporters into it. But what has he done to that other potent symbol in the White House, with the person he let into the Oval Office...
...Chernomyrdin is trying to cobble together a coalition involving Communists and other opposition parties, but Monday's rejection was a bid by the opposition-controlled Duma to secure further concessions before confirming him in a later ballot. Western lenders are alarmed at the concessions Chernomyrdin has already offered, such as reintroducing Soviet-era price and exchange controls. Any further horse-trading will simply confirm doubts about a Chernomyrdin government's ability to stop the economic hemorrhaging...
...true, the made-in-Hollywood plot is sure to go down in history next to the legendary CIA bid to blow up Castro with an exploding cigar. Can Arafat confirm it? Not likely -- the Palestinian leader has seen way too much skullduggery in his time for this to stick out. "There were several attempts to assassinate him," says a PLO security aide, "but I don't recall an incident with a radio...