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...reforms. In his other show of clout, Yeltsin chose to disband a 5,000-strong police force controlled by one of his major rivals, legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Ironically, the so-called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin began calling the force an "illegal armed unit" after it was deployed at the offices of the newspaper Izvestia -- once the official Soviet mouthpiece but today a Yeltsin bastion whose ownership is at the center of a dispute among hard-line lawmakers, the government and the newspaper...
...Procter & Gamble chairman and leader of the directors aligned against Stempel. But GM's problems go back to the free-spending 1980s, when the company invested billions in computer and aircraft firms rather than finding new ways to build better cars, and it will take more than a boardroom coup to turn that around. (See Cover Stories beginning on page...
...only interview Smith granted after last week's coup, he bristled at such criticism and sought to burnish his legacy, telling the Detroit Free Press that Electronic Data Systems, which GM bought in 1984 for $2.5 billion, is now worth seven times that amount and that Hughes Aircraft ($5 billion in 1985) has doubled in value. "That's not too shabby," Smith said. "I think I gave GM a little bit of money to see 'em through...
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court opened hearings into the history of communist rule and Yeltsin's ban of the party after the coup d'etat of August 1991. As General Secretary of the party for its last six years, Gorbachev was naturally called to testify. He refused, saying he would not participate in a "political" trial, "even if I am brought to the court in handcuffs." In < retaliation, the Russian authorities have threatened to evict him from his institute and yanked his passport. Only when the Germans protested his treatment was he permitted to go to the Brandt funeral...
Gorbachev has reason to be wary of the court. Die-hard communists have been taking the stand to argue for lifting the ban on the party; some are clearly bent on implicating Gorbachev in the failed coup...