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...Political and Military Mess President Boris Yeltsin is sufficiently sophisticated to realize that his political survival is at stake as a result of actions in Chechnya [Jan. 16]. But it would be harmful for us to cynically view his motivation as solely political. He knows that instability in Russia alienates investors outside the country, and that support and aid from the West and the International Monetary Fund are all at grave risk. Accordingly, it is highly doubtful Yeltsin would think he could boost his political popularity by using force to suppress secession in Chechnya. To the point: separatism in Russia...
Maggie Conlon (Crissy Rock) is a working-class mess. She has had four children by four men. She does care for her kids and tries her best to take care of them, but she has also lived with a man who beat her in front of her children. ("He never, ever touched the kids," she says defensively. "You gotta give him that.") Once, when she and her brood were staying in a welfare hotel, she locked them inside the flat and went to a pub; there was a fire, and the children were injured. Social Services removed them to foster...
...daylong public forum to gripe. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin touted the IMF loan -- largest in the organization's 51-year history -- as the international community's vote of confidence on Mexico's ability to recover. But in Congress, says TIME's Tumulty, "right now it's just a big mess. The president's version cannot pass, but they know they have to pass something...
...THAT MEDIA BARON RUPERT MURDOCH paid his visit to the Speaker-to-be, Newt Gingrich's one-room Capitol office was in chaos. Extra telephone lines were being installed, and aides were camping out on a floor littered with phone messages. Gingrich, arriving late, waved his hand at the mess and invited Murdoch and two of his lobbyists to an ornate reception room down the hall. There, as caterers set up for a Democratic dinner, the two sat on a bench and talked for 10 to 15 minutes. Their chat was mostly about the election that had swept the Republicans...