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...Central Committee passed a resolution last week condemning the Yeltsin decree. Gorbachev also claimed that he would oppose any moves against local party cells by "all constitutional means." But hard-liners like Sergeyev suspect the President will betray them. They contend that Gorbachev wants the issue to be decided by the Committee for Constitutional Compliance, which rules on the constitutionality of laws, rather than veto the decree himself and risk alienating Yeltsin. No matter what the Kremlin does, the Russians are bound to go ahead with plans to kick party functionaries out of factories...
...spying binge, the former Navy counterintelligence analyst gave hundreds of classified documents to Israeli contacts for some $45,000 in cash, claiming "anxiety" over Israel's vulnerability to attack. The passage of time has also given more weight to Pollard's excuse. His defenders, who want his sentence commuted, contend that his information on the Iraqi military was crucial to Israel during the gulf...
Some American blacks and liberals nonetheless denounced Bush's action as premature, an opinion also voiced by A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela. The opponents contend, correctly, that South Africa is still far from multiracial democracy. Substantive negotiations on a new constitution that would permit blacks to vote and share in governing the country have not even begun. The critics argue that without the continued pressure of international sanctions, full equality will never come...
However that comes out, the contretemps spotlights a broader problem: only the unprecedented rights to prowl everywhere and look at anything in the country that the U.N. gained because of the cease-fire have enabled it to expose Saddam's cheating. If Iraq had to contend with just the regular inspections of known nuclear facilities, required by the 1970 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it signed, it might be well on the way to reviving a bomb-building program that allied bombing was intended to interrupt. As recently as last November, IAEA inspectors toured the nuclear facilities Baghdad acknowledged possessing...
Congressional Democrats are seething over NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF's condemnation of Washington "fairies" who exaggerated the dangers of war. Many legislators contend that during a Riyadh briefing last autumn, the general emphasized the strength of the Iraqi army and predicted as many as 20,000 U.S. casualties. "This guy contributed in no small degree to the Democratic opposition to the war," complains a Senate staffer...