Word: insists
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...muster the political support to make his program stick. There is, at the core of the Yeltsin regime, a vacuum of power and an absence of leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign." The merry-go-round of Prime Ministers bespeaks the destructively ad hoc nature of the country's governance. No wonder Russians and the rest of the world were left wondering anxiously last week, Is anyone in charge here...
...politicians may reach an agreement on a prime minister, but they're unlikely to agree on an economic policy. Boris Yeltsin has convened a weekend horse-trading session in the hope of securing Viktor Chernomyrdin's election on Monday, after the Duma postponed Friday's vote. "The Communists still insist they'll reject Chernomyrdin, but the tide may be turning as backroom deals have swung some key constituencies," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...Sudan with a double whammy late Monday -- not more missiles, but a couple of withering charges about that Shifa Pharmaceuticals plant in northern Khartoum. Not only do intelligence sources claim possession of a "soil sample" containing EMPTA, an ingredient in VX nerve gas, but they also insist the factory was a chemical weapons bazaar -- primed to produce VX for Baghdad as well as Bin Laden. Nonsense, say the Sudanese: Soil samples from outside the plant are no indication of what's going on within, and taking samples from inside the plant would require a power drill. Futhermore, Sudan alleges, their...
Most neighbors insist they had little notion of the scurrilousness at Sunnymede, even though Dempsey advertised AN AFTERNOON DELIGHT in Morris County's Daily Record and the Yellow Pages. Morris Township was once known as millionaire's row, and its residents value their privacy. But something always seemed different about Dempsey and her husband Robert. One Christmas shortly after they moved into Sunnymede, the Dempseys invited most of the neighborhood to their house for a lavish soiree. Champagne flowed in rivers. "We're mostly straitlaced Methodists," Elizabeth Smith says. "She seemed like a party girl. Not my type." Soon after...
...Starr's few smart soundbites has been to insist that his investigation -- from Whitewater to Monica -- has been about conspiracy, buying silence, and fighting the investigation itself at every turn. And he's not without leads. "Clinton's problems are, with the possible retrieval of gifts, whether he told Monica to lie" and whether he told Betty Currie to lie, says TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf. "But he may have been able to skirt the line between suggesting something be kept quiet and actually suborning perjury...