Word: khasbulatov
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...court's Chief Justice Valeri Zorkin did not use the word impichment in his advisory opinion, but that did not slow down Khasbulatov. "It's absolutely clear," he insisted, "that there are grounds for initiating the impeachment process." Members of the parliament weren't all as sure. Khasbulatov settled the debate by ramming through a summons to the parliament's parent body, the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies, to meet on Friday to consider removing Yeltsin from office...
...Friday's full Congress session, Yeltsin urged the Deputies not to press ahead with the vote to remove him, warning that it could "plunge the people into the abyss of confrontation." Whether Khasbulatov was responding to that or had just counted heads and found he could not muster the two-thirds vote necessary, he too stepped back. Conceding that he may have overreacted to Yeltsin's "special rule" speech, he withdrew his demand for impeachment. "Frankly," he said, "I am not a supporter of impeachment...
...Saturday session, Khasbulatov, true to his earlier recantation, tried to head off the vote on the motion to consider sacking Yeltsin. "Impeachment, impeachment! What is this word impeachment?" he said, mocking the use of the foreign term. He was clearly relieved when the motion did not attract enough support to be placed on the agenda...
...weary, rambling speech Saturday afternoon, Yeltsin suggested that in a week of compromise talks with Khasbulatov, Zorkin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he could produce an agreement that might end the power struggle. The President's face looked puffy, and he paused often, setting off mutters among his foes that he was drunk. Maria Sorokina, a Deputy from Lipetsk, her voice almost breaking, went to the podium to say she had been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long...
...plan as a cynical attempt to circumvent the Congress. "Only cynical people could have come up with this," raged conservative Deputy Gennadi Benov. "We could accept this only if we are a Congress of political suicides." Opposition Deputy Vladimir Isakov immediately proposed an impeachment motion and said to Khasbulatov, "We are sick and tired of your unscrupulousness, of your ploys. The President and the speaker are the two people here who have led us and the country into this dead end." Isakov then moved that Khasbulatov be sacked by secret ballot...