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Clinton could restrain his need for new revenues by curtailing his reformist ambitions: his aides have privately discussed phasing in his health-care plan so that it covers all uninsured children by the end of his first term and only grows to include adults in his second. But even if he slows down on the health-care front, Clinton is still left with expensive campaign promises. , Among them: his pledge to establish a program for college loans that students could repay in national service instead of dollars, which could cost as much as $30 billion. Then there...
NINE DAYS OF SUSPENSE OVER THE MAKEUP OF RUSsia's new government finally broke: President Boris Yeltsin's key reformist ministers will keep their jobs after all. Yeltsin's abrupt abandonment of his acting Prime Minister, free- market maven Yegor Gaidar, made the announcement a relief for those who feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's radical reform path altogether. Among the key players from the Gaidar team retaining their posts are Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Shokhin and Anatoli Chubais. Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev was also kept on. No changes were announced in the key Interior, Defense...
Make no mistake: his remains the old reformist faith. But he knows, as his illustrious forebears forgot, that reform must leave no one out. Government by - the enlightened for the disadvantaged? No: by the people, for the people...
...kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government are on the brink of collapse...
Vladimir Lukin, who is about to become ambassador to Washington, has impeccable reformist credentials: as a young journalist in Czechoslovakia in 1968, he bravely opposed the Soviet invasion. Now he is urging patience on the part of everyone -- Ukrainians, Russians and outsiders. "An enlightened and balanced championship of both Russian and Ukrainian interests," he says, "is the only weapon against Zhirinovsky and the extreme nationalists." Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers...