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VLADISLAV LISTYEV BECAME A posthumous cult hero in Moscow in less than a week. At his funeral Saturday, March 4, thousands of mourners piled his grave with mounds of mimosas, roses, carnations and spruce boughs. As thousands more continued to arrive in Moscow's historic Vagankovskoye Cemetery and place flowers beside the crepe-trimmed portrait of the TV journalist gunned down in the stairwell of his apartment building, they were sending Russia's leaders a powerful message. This callous murder, like no other, has demonstrated to every citizen that President Boris Yeltsin and the men in the Kremlin are facing...
...Among the many thousands who have visited Listyev's grave there were some who loved him," says Alexander Yakovlev, chairman of the board of the new Russian public-television network where Listyev was executive director. "But most people came as a protest against the helplessness and inaction of the government in dealing with crime." Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is "amazed" at the government's lethargy. When he talks with Yeltsin about it, "he agrees with me, but nothing gets done...
Faced with a mushrooming crisis, Yeltsin last week called for a new effort to stem crime. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a scapegoat, he fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to "provide proper organization" to deal with "grave crimes." He chaired a meeting of the Security Council, which issued a stern warning: the continued activities of organized crime were "discrediting state powers" and "threatening the security of Russia...
Cutting research programs will allow other countries to overtake the U.S. and could lead to grave consequence. Cutting scientific research and with it scientific development will result in literally cutting the life line of the United States...
Post-modernism, today's dominant philosophical doctrine, is taking a grave and dangerous turn. In the past, post-modernism has limited its attacks to the humanities, but recently it has been trying to add science to its list of victims. The attack on science, objectivity's last stronghold, poses an imminent threat to society...