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...enough of ?Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,? Monday sees the launch of the family-oriented PAX TV, the seventh (!) national network. PAX promises to be ?Free of explicit sex. Free of senseless violence. Free of foul language.? Cynics might add ?Free of profits,? but just in case I?m wrong, remember this for future trivia games: PAX TV?s first program is a sanitized ?Today? show called ?Great Day America.? It starts at noon...
...manufacturing sector, after all, failed from the start: State-owned factories -- churning out goods that people no longer wanted -- were unable to adapt to a market in which consumers had a choice. "Much of the country has lived, literally, without money for years," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The meltdown in Moscow is simply bringing it into line with the rest of Russia." By comparison, consider China's transition to capitalism: The Communists never relinquished tight political control but transformed its manufacturing sector into a producer of goods -- Nike, the Gap and much more --- that Western consumers...
...straddle the mutually exclusive demands of the Communists, whom he aims to bring into government, and the IMF, which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "A lot of the country has been living without money for years, because of the ham-fisted policies of successive Yeltsin administrations -- most of them headed by Chernomyrdin...
...another 180-degree turn in economic policy. Five months ago Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin for fomenting a financial crisis; on Sunday he reappointed Chernomyrdin to resolve that crisis. "To put it generously, this is rather illogical on Yeltsin's part," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "It has raised serious doubts over the president's logical processes, even among his staunch backers...
...Russian politicians to enjoy any confidence among Western bankers. President Clinton, when he arrives at the Kremlin next week, may feel as if he's walked into the Mad Hatter's tea party. "Yeltsin is no longer connected in any sense to the solution to Russia's crisis," says Quinn-Judge. "He's very much part of the problem." And that leaves Clinton with yet another painful dilemma...