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...hard-liner who had served as acting head of the church since the death last month of Patriarch Pimen. Leader of the Kiev diocese since 1966, Filaret is more of a Ukrainian chauvinist than is Vladimir and, according to dissident priest Gleb Yakunin, is seen as "a KGB puppet." He was third in the bishops' vote...
...attending Deputies are divided almost evenly into three groups: Yeltsin supporters, Vlasov loyalists and the undecided. Even the reformers have mixed feelings about the erratic, boastful populism of Yeltsin. He is, however, a vivid alternative to Vlasov, an organization man who is considered a Gorbachev puppet. "Yeltsin is a man of many contradictions," says Nikolai Yershov, a Deputy from Borovichovsky, "but a vote for him is the only guarantee that there will be no returning to the past. He's the only guy who can look Gorbachev in the eye and tell him the truth...
...absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against the interests of the poor and disenfranchised black majority...
...gain their freedom. The centrist Popular Front movement advocates working through the republic's supreme soviet to advance the cause of independence. The National Forum, a coalition of seven * political parties and national movements set up last month, rejects any form of cooperation with what it calls the Soviet "puppet" government. The group wants to hold alternative elections for a new national congress...
...families who live near the company's corporate headquarters; the others are related to employees who contribute on a sliding, income-based scale to the annual $7,000 cost. Hiatt recruited faculty members from Boston's Wheelock College to develop a curriculum of shared activities such as storytelling and puppet plays...