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Well before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a high-speed convoy of government vehicles made the short drive from Boris Yeltsin's luxurious sanatorium in the village of Barvikha to the heart center on the edge of Moscow. The patient was in a good mood, his spokesman reported later, and joked with the doctors. After two months of waiting, wild rumors and some nasty Kremlin infighting, the Russian President's heart-bypass operation--a procedure as crucial politically as it was medically--had finally become a reality. At 2 p.m., after seven hours in the operating room, during which Yeltsin...
Meanwhile, virtually every major automaker is spending heavily to make the dream come true. Chrysler has the 1.3-mile-long test bed I'm bouncing along in Chelsea, Michigan. General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
...from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While politicians in Moscow plot, there is already stress on the fragile pact: Chechens troops attacked and disarmed a Russian convoy near the Chechen capital Grozny, reportedly without inflicting a single casualty. Russian commanders demanded a return of the weapons, threatening to cut off talks and end their withdrawal. The rebels said the arms will be returned, but their point was made. The assault was yet another example of the embarrassment...
...Israel. Over the past 15 years, the U.S. has closed embassies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan and Libya. Many remaining diplomatic outposts have turned into virtual fortresses. Part of the U.S. chancellery in Cairo is built to withstand a nuclear blast. In Beirut the ambassador travels in a military convoy protected by a machine-gun turret. "It has been a long time," says a U.S. official, "since I have seen such strong anti-American feelings in the Middle East...
...area of Han Pijesak, headquarters of Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic, who was indicted for genocide by the Bosnia war crimes tribunal. The Portuguese soldiers were heading east of Sarajevo to deliver food supplies when several shots were fired from nearby woods, hitting the last vehicle in the convoy. When the Portuguese soldiers fired back, three men ran from the woods. The incident came on the same day that war crimes investigators in Cerska began a meticulous exhumation of the mass graves in which they expect to find about 7,000 bodies of Muslim men who were massacred...