Word: flees
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...city's books by facing down municipal unions, privatizing jobs and saving money on everything from leases to insurance. Now he gives mayoral lessons: both Los Angeles' Richard Riordan and New York City's Rudolph Giuliani have got pointers. He still has headaches--people and jobs continue to flee the city. But he also has big-time fans--he's Clinton's "favorite mayor"--and a strong record to run for higher office...
Only two weeks ago, Yeltsin handed responsibility for resolving Chechnya to his ambitious national security chief, Alexander Lebed, who swiftly launched peace talks. Ignoring that, Russia's acting military commander late last Monday gave citizens in Grozny 48 hours to flee before the Russians initiated "large-scale combat operations." As he issued his ultimatum, Lieut. General Konstantin Pulikovsky voiced his firm opinion that the Chechens could be quelled only by "the use of force...
Lebed was then dealt a severe setback when, on Wednesday, Pulikovsky jumped the gun and began pounding the Chechen capital with heavy artillery, bombs and rockets, at least 12 hours before his deadline. Thousands of panicked civilians trying to flee were caught in the cross fire. As the bombardment intensified, Lebed sped to Grozny to renew talks with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen military commander, calling the Russian offensive "a bad joke." He quickly "guaranteed" there would be "no storming of Grozny" and he would "see to it" that the Russian generals obeyed...
Unarmed Tutsi civilians, most of them landholders, are bearing the brunt of the ethnic cleansing. Despite decades of peaceful coexistence with local Hutu, at least 50,000 Tutsi have been forced to flee since 1995, most to squalid refugee camps just across the Rwandan border. In the Masisi highlands, two small groups of Tutsi remain. Desire Gaspira, 40, a veterinary nurse born in the area, is among them. "Before, Tutsi and Hutu worked together," he said last month. "We drank together. We were brothers. Now we are enemies." In nearby Goma a Tutsi aid worker explained the dilemma facing...
...Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice. No matter what one might think of Yeltsin, he's the only one, because there is no one else...