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That said, Yeltsin sketched a sort of platform for his own side, prudently trying to shore up his constituencies and dangle campaign promises before voters who might be won over. His top priority during the period of "special rule," he said, would be to allow large-scale private ownership of land. He promised "a simple and understandable mechanism for handing land over to citizens." By no coincidence, that is a capitalistic reform that former communists have fought most bitterly and, so far, successfully. Yeltsin's other economic pledges were a mixture of capitalism -- making the privatization of state-run industry...
Supporters chanted sayings including. "When shore comes to push. Clinton's just the same as Bush," and " HIV is not a crime, why are Haitian doing time?" referring to the allegedly inhumane conditions in which the refuges presently reside...
...Monday a panel of outside experts called upon to shore up Biosphere 2's scientific underpinnings announced that they had voted to resign, citing unspecified conflicts with the project's managers. "I was frustrated by the lack of progress," said biologist Thomas Lovejoy, the panel's chairman. The Biospherians will soldier on, but their two-year experiment in self- sufficiency is starting to look less like science and more like a $150 million stunt...
...territories that U.N. troops had failed to clear of Serb forces, the mines had already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the 210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir behind...
...this case, the tempestuous weather was the culprit -- and then the savior. High winds and 30-ft. waves sent the ship onto the shore and prevented salvage crews from removing the oil. But "the weather had its good sides too," says Madeleine McDonagh, head of the marine-environment group at Britain's Warren Spring Laboratory. "The winds and waves helped induce a natural dispersion...