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...opposition to the war was real. The bombs and napalm were real. College students protesting, just like us, were shot to death at Kent State and Jackson State. The draft was real. (Remember the lottery, the chilling numbers, the saved and the damned? I wonder if there's a man in our class who doesn't remember his lottery number today.) The anger, the passion were real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moving From One Set Of Promises to Another | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...point, and his challengers sense it. Lebed criticized the Kremlin's handling of the hostage crisis and warned that "there was no guarantee it won't happen again." In his declaration speech Zhirinovsky demanded, "End the war in the Caucasus! If you don't burn the rebels' bases with napalm, then you, Boris Nikolayevich, will lose the election on June 16, and I will do it on July 1!" Though crude, the threat contained a simple truth: the war in Chechnya mars any Yeltsin-image makeover, however impressive, and seriously hurts his chances for victory in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: PALE, RESTED AND READY | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...Chechens killed, and Yeltsin wants to show them he is in control of the situation." For their part, Chechens see in Moscow's current unsettled political climate their last, best chance for independence. In the face of calls by ultranationalist presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky for the immediate napalm bombing of all Chechen bases, the Chechens seem to have concluded that their only chance is to go all out for independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Against The Wall | 1/16/1996 | See Source »

Ever prepared with simple solutions to intractable problems, ultranationalist and Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky called on the Kremlin to "Take off the white gloves and rose-colored glasses and stop the war in the Caucasus." Vlad's solution: "Burn all rebel bases with napalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO MORE MR. NICE GUY: | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

Taking full advantage of seven minutes of free TV time last week, ultranationalist Zhirinovsky expounded his unique view of the world with all the subtlety of a firing Kalashnikov. Barely taking a breath, he railed against the country's new bankers, threatened to rain napalm down on villagers in the Caucasus region who kill Russian soldiers, and promised every hungry Russian a bowl of soup. "Russian fathers, do you know where your daughters are?" Zhirinovsky asked. "They're selling their bodies to buy clothes and cosmetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRACY IN A WHIRL | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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