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North Korea's leaders probably calculated the launch would also thrill audiences at home, to set the stage for this week's celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of North Korea by Kim's father, Kim Il Sung. Last week the North Korean parliament, meeting for the first time since Kim Il Sung died in 1994, honored him with the title of permanent President (enhancing the truth of the slogan THE GREAT LEADER IS ALWAYS WITH US). Kim Jong Il doesn't need the title of President. He has used his authority as commander in chief and head...
...that Russia should be hardest hit of all. Its leaders have been in place for only seven years, but in that time they have failed utterly to create viable institutions of power. Under Yeltsin, Russia acquired the trappings of a civilized state: an office of the President, a federal parliament, private banks. But they only looked authentic. The presidency resembled the throne of the Czar, upon which the entire welfare of the nation rested. But the erratic Yeltsin is physically and politically out of touch, having lost control of his Cabinet, the parliament and the people. The Duma, supposedly...
Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign, demanding a greater share of power and disdainfully offering the President guarantees that he would not be prosecuted or harassed once he left office. More troubling still, the communists, led by Gennadi Zyuganov, prepared to parlay the failure of Russia's cutthroat capitalism into a rollback of the reforms that, for better or worse, have been credited to Yeltsin's account, such as a freely convertible ruble, a tight money supply, even some industrial privatization...
...political figure. His aides last week started negotiating with the Duma over a "political agreement" that would alter the Constitution by taking away the President's power to issue decrees on the economy, limiting his ability to dismiss and appoint governments and transferring many of those prerogatives to the parliament and the Cabinet. In other words, these were the terms for Yeltsin's surrender. In return, the parliament would halt impeachment proceedings and pass a law giving the President "social guarantees" when he retires...
Members of Charles' press office at St. James's Palace insist that much of this modernization began before Diana's death. Such popular decisions as trimming the Civil List (funds allotted by Parliament for royal family expenses) and having the Queen and Prince Charles pay taxes were initiated in 1992. But there is no question that in many ways Diana's absence has made life much easier for the royals. Charles can no longer be compared unfavorably to her and, says Seward, "they get their picture in the paper, and whatever Charles does causes interest...