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...briefing document for the political leadership recently warned, "Russia faces a difficult autumn and winter." Discontent with the government's failure to pay back wages grows. Last week defense workers picketed in Moscow to demand months of back pay and did so with the blessing of Defense Minister Igor Rodionov...
After the presidential elections, Lebed lobbied publicly, and successfully, for General Rodionov to be appointed Defense Minister. But sources close to the Kremlin tell TIME that when Lebed recently tried to dictate to Rodionov a list of high-level personnel changes in the ministry, "Rodionov told him what to do with his list." Lebed's opponents in the political establishment are hoping that time will erode his lead. If the Chechnya peace agreement unravels, or Yeltsin recovers, Lebed's premature election campaign will look both indelicate and unwise. But in either case, Lebed might well walk out of the government...
...Chinese embassy to see what was going on. He found the embassy barricaded with packing boxes, and a crowd of Ghanaians standing outside. When they saw the American flag on his limousine, they broke into a cheer. In Peking, the expulsion was labeled an "atrocity." Russian Ambassador Georgi Rodionov took it somewhat more philosophically. "These things happen," he said...
...showy smelter to refine its tin ore, the U.S. showed its cards by lending Bolivia $10 million to revamp the nationalized tin mines, which account for 67% of the impoverished nation's export income. Last week the Communists dealt off another, even bigger offer. In La Paz, Nicolai Rodionov, Soviet bureaucrat, announced that Russia would bid not only the smelter but also a $150 million low-interest, long-term loan for Russian technical aid to Bolivia's government-owned petroleum and tin corporations. Russia might also buy, all of Bolivia's high-cost tin ore, currently...
...Stockholm: the opening of a treason trial against seven Swedes who are accused of selling out the secrets of Sweden's entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador and spat into the embassy compound. When he walked out of the Foreign Office, he carried away with him two irate Swedish protests...