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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...
...head of the FSB (successor to the KGB) will be Vladimir Putin, a former spy in Germany who now serves in Yeltsin's presidential administration. "At 45, Putin is much closer in thinking and age to the new 30-something men who now rule Russia," says Meier. "It reveals the desire of the new generation in power to push the grayhairs from the controls of the security forces" -- and make sure the troops remain loyal and battle-ready for the tough times ahead...
...issue] must be talked about in a way thatis meaningful to the students...this [must be] putin a context of the kinds of treatments that areavailable: the physiological and the organicchanges," Catlin says...
...history of block grants is that the peoplepropose this largely to reduce the share they putin," Wolf said. "It's highly unlikely next yearthat they would raise [the appropriation] forinflation or for need...
...staring with the textbook department, but eventually all the departments will be a part of this system,"said David B. Lovins, who is managing thetransition to the new machines. "We've rippedeverything out from hardware to software, and putin an entirely new system...