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...President Alexander Lukashenko found the results of the voting attacked by parliament. So today, Lukashenko convinced 111 members to leave their colleagues behind and convene in another building across town. That left 60 or 70 of his opponents behind in the original parliament, fuming and planning. Vice speaker Gennady Karpenko said the anti-Lukashenko deputies would not recognize the results, which were 70.5 percent in favor of the referendum. He said there was evidence of vote fraud that "constitutes a clear and glaring violation of the constitution and referendum law, crudely flouts human rights and makes the referendum results illegal...
...ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were "in many ways brothers." Said Soviet veteran Sasha Karpenko: "We feel ourselves part of those who died in Viet Nam. This is our mutual tragedy...