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...calls for his resignation -- a move that Buchanan says is inconceivable without orders from Zedillo's highly-centralized national government. The president's about-face comes after an ill-fated weekend effort to hunt down Zapatista leaders, who represent poor Mayan peasants, amid international stock market jitters over the rebellion's growing political impact. "The hunt for Marcos was taking too long," Buchanan says. "The government thought that they could do away with the Zapatista movement in 72 hours, and that decisive action would make the stock market rally. Quite plainly, it didn't work." Making matters worse, he says...
...Republicans to detail in advance just where the cuts will fall, and then be approved by at least 38 state legislatures, a more iffy prospect. But whatever the pitfalls ahead, it was the bumpy process of getting it through the House that surprised Gingrich, who had to squash a rebellion among first-termers who don't like the sound of terms like compromise and half a loaf...
...Department accused Russia and China of persistent human rights abuses. In its 17th annual human rights report to Congress, the department said "human rights violations span the globe, and no region has a monopoly on abuses." Nonetheless, Russia was singled out for its prolonged and fierce suppression of the rebellion in Chechnya, then slammed for President Boris Yeltsin's failure to prevent arbitary arrests and illegal searches. China drew fire as "an authoritarian state" that tortured political prisoners and waged a war of repression in neighboring Tibet. The verdicts come amid conflicting signals within the Clinton Adminsitration, including a constructive...
...weeks after Defense Minister Pavel Grachev boasted that his forces would subdue Chechnya's rebellion in a matter of hours, the Russian tricolor finally fluttered last week atop the ruins of the presidential palace in Grozny. As resistance fighters melted into the suburbs and took to the hills, the bloody battle for control of the Chechen capital shifted sufficiently in Moscow's favor to allow Boris Yeltsin to claim victory. This he speedily did. ``The military stage of restoring the constitution in Chechnya is effectively over,'' he declared in Moscow, adding that the time had come for the ``restoration...
...will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent by the rebels. With Zapatista backing, the losing p.r.d. candidate, Amado Avendano, has already been installed as symbolic head of a ``government in rebellion'' in San Cristobal de las Casas, the colonial state capital...