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...glimpse of Yeltsin, the team manager, coping with ordinary affairs of state, is in marked contrast to the larger-than-life image of the Russian leader that the world came to know during last August's putsch. He displayed ruthless daring again last December, when he delivered the political coup de grace to Gorbachev and to the empire he ruled. But Yeltsin has been dogged by one persistent doubt: Could he transform himself from a defiant leader of the opposition, bent on destroying the old order, into a competent statesman capable of building...
...connection is Gaidar, who was once director of Moscow's Institute of Economic Policy and an economics editor of the party daily Pravda. Long before they had any possibility of entering the government, the group used to gather to discuss future economic models for Russia. Then, during the coup attempt, Gaidar and friends issued a public statement condemning the economic policies of the putsch leaders. It caught Yeltsin's attention...
Russia's leaders contend that they have learned one important lesson from the events leading up to the August putsch: Gorbachev was too dependent on information filtered to him by his chief of staff, who proved to be one of the coup's ringleaders. Yeltsin is much more open to different points of view -- some would say too accessible. The result has been an occasional glitch between the Prime Minister-President and his government. An air of mystery still surrounds the drafting of a presidential decree merging the police and security forces into one monster agency, which Yeltsin hastily signed...
...wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come to stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That was 47 years ago, when the Crimea fell unquestionably within the Kremlin's empire and only dreamers wasted time imagining a world without the Soviet Union...
...really proud," says Sandi L. Dubowski '92, former BGLSA cochair. "I feel like it was he biggest coup against people like [the AssociationAgainst Learning in the Absence of Religion andMorality] and Peninsula...