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...will be as momentous as any get-together conducted during the chilliest days of the cold war. If the U.S. does not succeed in helping Moscow stay on the path of economic and democratic reforms and Yeltsin is ousted, the West will almost certainly face a leader in the Kremlin far less friendly to its interests. Yeltsin's ongoing tussle with a naysaying parliament keeps reminding nervous Western leaders just how big a stake they have in the success of his leadership and reforms. Moscow without Yeltsin could decide to withdraw its support of sanctions in Yugoslavia and instead back...
...time the third session of the Congress in three months gathered in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, the impeachment drive seemed to be losing its momentum. Although the Kremlin rang with bitter invective, the hard-liners did not have the votes to depose Yeltsin. Zorkin, the Chief Justice who had set the impeachment bandwagon in motion, instead offered a 10-point plan for national reconciliation similar to Yeltsin's own program, including a referendum on a new constitution and a law abolishing the Congress in favor of a bicameral parliament...
...Russian President," he said, "is to take the initiative in his own hands." Few knew better than Gorbachev the fate of those who failed to show courage at the decisive moment: when the August coup of 1991 collapsed after three days, Gorbachev chose to closet himself in the Kremlin instead of rushing out to the barricades and embracing the man who had stood up to the plotters and vowed never to surrender...
...those reasons, the White House made up its mind to back the Russian President as strongly as it practically can. Clinton and his aides could see no alternative to Yeltsin who would not be much worse for the causes of free- market democracy in Russia and friendliness between the Kremlin and the White House. The Russian's promise of democracy as the goal of an interim semi-dictatorship gave the Administration a plausible excuse for making its support prompt and public -- though some officials confided that the backing would have been forthcoming, reluctantly, even if Yeltsin had acted more autocratically...
Some Kremlinologists worry that the U.S. and its allies may be running a grave risk in backing Yeltsin so strongly. If he loses, as he well might, the winners of the Kremlin power struggle will be even angrier at the West for opposing them than they would be otherwise. Others doubt that; they think ; Yeltsin's successor, no matter who it is, will have to deal pragmatically with the West...