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MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign has turned to scare tactics as the election nears. On Thursday, Yeltsin's top political aide warned that Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader and leading presidential candidate, was plotting to steal the election by voter fraud and threatening a civil war. Although anti-Communist scare tactics have long been a feature of the election campaign, this attack was by far the most incendiary. "Yeltsin's team is trying to paint the race as a black and white contest, even though there are 11 candidates in the first round pool," says Moscow correspondent...
RECOVERING. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, 68, dethroned House Ways and Means chairman who last month pleaded guilty to mail fraud; after prostate cancer surgery; in Washington...
JORDAN, Montana: Colorado state Senator Charles Duke has packed his bags and headed home. After six days of negotiations with leaders of the Freemen group hunkered down on a ranch outside Jordan, Duke declared the group to be "paper-hanging frauds hiding behind the Constitution," and said it was time they "felt some pain." On several occasions over the last week, negotiators felt they were close to reaching a settlement, only to see the Freemen upped the ante. Such tactics infuriated Duke, who was seen several times engaged in heated discussion with Freemen representatives before breaking off talks Tuesday. "They...
...rags-to-riches U.S. immigrant returned to his Balkan homeland in July 1992 to be Prime Minister and challenge Slobodan Milosevic's power, some cynics saw it merely as a way to protect the Yugoslav interests of his company, ICN Pharmaceuticals. Panic may have been naive--he lost a fraud-wracked presidential election against Milosevic on Dec. 20, 1992, and was ousted as P.M. nine days later--but his idealism was genuine. Today Panic has "no interest in politics," he says, preferring to act as an informal economic adviser to the region. He also still runs ICN, but his tenure...
INDICTED. JOE WALDHOLTZ, 33, estranged husband of Utah Representative Enid Greene; on 27 counts of bank fraud; in Washington. He was also freed from a Pittsburgh jail after accounting for money entrusted to him for investment by his grandmother. He had spent most of it on himself...