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While the Kremlin gave no immediate response, Deputies in the Duma, or lower house of parliament, blasted the initial government decision to send troops to Chechnya. "The country is in crisis," said one, reformer Boris Fyodorov, joining a unanimous call for a special commission to probe the war. Still, the Deputies rejected a limit on President BorisYeltsin's power to run the military offensive, and -- in a slap at widely criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev -- ordered the army's general staff to report directly to Yeltsin...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said he would stay in office to face a no-confidence vote in parliament, rather than resign and plot a political comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry...
...Irish parliament elected a conservative prime minister today, filling a month-old vacuum that threatened to derail the Northern Ireland peace process. John Bruton, leader of the Fine Gael party and the new P.M., is on the record as supporting the peace process that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country...
...people. Russian President Boris Yeltsin's risky decision to ship up to 40,000 troops to Grozny prompted rallies by political opponents on both the left and right who fear a military quagmire. But Yeltsin -- who's up for re-election in 1996 -- fired back in an address to Parliament: "It is irresponsible to use the tragedy of the Chechen people, the pain of all Russia, for pre-election battles."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...spirited offensive served to deflect parliament's fire away from Grachev himself, and no vote was taken to call for his dismissal. But when he dropped out of a government visit to the Gulf region last week, the presumption was that he had finally fallen from official favor. In fact, Grachev had become ill after speaking to the parliament and checked into a hospital for medical tests...