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There are several answers, none of them reassuring. Most important, Yeltsin presides over a system that was built with one purpose: to give him as much power as possible and reduce to an absolute minimum the political latitude of both parliament and his own ministers. Second, Yeltsin is profoundly jealous of anyone who tries to steal his limelight, and during his illness he has divided caretaker duties between presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, two men whose approaches to politics and government are diametrically opposed. The result, as the President undoubtedly intended, is political stalemate...
...unwieldy thing. Citizens have staged 22 days of protests in a bid to un-elect the now reviled Socialists, and elected a president, Petar Stoyanov, who they hoped would find a way to ease the Socialists from power. But when it came to the formation of his Parliament, Stoyanov Tuesday came up against the country's constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered continued negotiations with the opposition on replacing the country's current...
...keeping 90% of the economy in the hands of the state. While inflation soared and wages plummeted, corrupt officials stripped the country of its assets, turning the rest of Bulgaria's 8.4 million people into some of the poorest in Europe. Bulgarians have had enough and are demanding that Parliament resign and call new elections...
SEOUL: After three weeks of strikes, rallies and protests that have crippled South Korea's economy, opposition members will get another shot at a labor law highly favorable to employers that passed Parliament in their absence. In a meeting with opposition leaders, President Kim Young-Sam offered the two sides the opportunity to reach a compromise of their own. The law, passed December 26, gives employers more freedom to lay off employees, adjust their hours and hire replacements for strikers, while delaying for up to five years the right to form multiple unions, making the confederations illegal. Leaders of those...
...some 400 Palestinian police had taken control of the prescribed 80 percent of Hebron, and the Israeli army said its withdrawal was complete. The agreement had allowed ten days for the pullout, but both sides worked quickly, to give militants of either side less opportunity for violence. Israel's parliament approved the withdrawal by an 87-17 vote late Thursday, after a full day of sometimes acrid debate. Netanyahu was quick to reassure. "We are not leaving Hebron." he said. "We are remaining in all the parts of the city where the Jewish community existed and exists and will continue...