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...from AIDS. SACKED. YURI KRAVCHENKO, 50, Ukrainian Interior Minister implicated by opposition groups in the murder of a journalist who was highly critical of the government; in Kiev. Kravchenko's dismissal came two months after the airing of tapes in which voices similar to his and that of President Leonid Kuchma discuss kidnapping reporter Georgy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was discovered last November. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets calling for Kuchma to resign, and Kravchenko's departure is seen as a gesture of compromise by the President and an effort to preserve his own hold on power...
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has been in deep trouble ever since his opposition released tapes purporting to be recordings of the president ordering his interior minister to "get rid" of a critical journalist whose decapitated body was discovered late last year. As pressure mounts on Kuchma to resign, he met Monday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Given Kuchma's flirtation with NATO in recent years, Putin's got to be loving this scandal...
...Presumably, that could create a political crisis for President Leonid Kuchma...
Special guests feuded in a debate to determine the Smartest Person in the World, with participants including Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador and Leonid Hambro, former principal pianist of the New York Philharmonic...
...difficult to watch, and it should be pointed out quickly that it wasn't just Khorkina in tatters and tears, it was the entire Russian team. Everything was upside down in the land Down Under: Americans were 0-3 in softball, and Russians were falling off gym equipment. Leonid Arkaev, the Russian head coach and maker of champions since 1968, was flabbergasted. "I don't know how to prepare for failure, it's never happened to me," he said before the competition started. Indeed, Russian gymnastic teams hadn't gone home without at least one championship in 40 years...