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Yeltsin on Friday asked the Duma, the Russian parliament, not only to approve his appointee, intelligence chief Vladimir Putin, as prime minister, but also to approve a new law simplifying procedures for declaring a state of emergency. "The situation in the North Caucasus shows that this law is essential," a Yeltsin spokesman said. Putin can significantly boost his political prestige by swiftly resolving the Dagestan crisis. But if it drags out into another bloody war, it will ruin the election chances of Yeltsin?s anointed heir -? and that may, in turn, tempt the president to avoid the election altogether...
...Although Prime Minister Ehud Barak has vowed to meet Israel?s obligations under Wye, he wants to delay the implementation of the two remaining troop withdrawals for fear of leaving Israeli settlements isolated in Palestinian territory. "Barak would prefer a final status agreement before completing the troop withdrawal, because he believes isolating the settlements gives hard-liners on both sides an incentive to stir up trouble and jeopardize the process," says Beyer. Previous redeployments have prompted Palestinian militants to shoot at settlers and have spurred the settlers to expand their settlements. Barak knows he?ll have to dismantle some...
...Astonishing stage pictures can be wonderful, but they're not enough," says Kellogg, 62, who, by all accounts, has been the prime mover in turning Glimmerglass into a major force in American opera. "We keep our productions spare so that the audience can concentrate on what is happening between the characters onstage. We look for singers who are really good actors--and then we give them room...
Boris Nikolayevich has an heir! No, the increasingly decrepit President Yeltsin hasn?t improbably sired a late-in-life son; on Monday he named his intelligence chief as his sixth prime minister in 17 months ?- and made clear that Vladimir Putin should succeed him as President. "Russians greet changes of government with a shrug, but the country is reeling on Yeltsin?s announcement that his new prime minister is his chosen successor as president," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "His vanity and self-preservation instinct has never allowed Yeltsin to previously name an heir...
...Carroll nightmare, he simply reminds Russia of his authority every few months by rousing himself long enough to lop off the head of his government, before returning to the hospital or sanatorium. The latest victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal, yet ineffective, response to the uprising in neighboring Chechnya five years ago. But Yeltsin has never...