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Faced with a mushrooming crisis, Yeltsin last week called for a new effort to stem crime. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a scapegoat, he fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to "provide proper organization" to deal with "grave crimes." He chaired a meeting of the Security Council, which issued a stern warning: the continued activities of organized crime were "discrediting state powers" and "threatening the security of Russia...
...budget amendment breezed through in two days, could meet death at an early age in the Senate. And for once Democratic leaders who had been struggling to resist the Republicans were able to frame an issue their way, even if they had to resort to the oldest liberal scare tactic. Against the irresistible force of budget-balancing sentiment they placed the immovable object of Social Security's sanctity...
...know to be President. We want to raise $2 million at this dinner, and it is essential that we do this. That means everyone-and if you can afford it, your children too-give that $1,000. If you and your spouse haven't given, please do so." The tactic worked: by last Friday, with four days to go before the dinner, the Barkers had met their $25,000 quota and were a few tickets shy of $50,000. "And I'm still working on them," Joe Barker says...
...Throw him in jail!'' On Wednesday, Salinas formally withdrew his now hopeless bid to preside over the new World Trade Organization, relinquishing a cherished ambition to become an international economic czar. And on Friday, in an act that summed up his political decline, Salinas fell back on a tactic normally reserved for those who have no other leverage: the former President began a fast, temporarily called it off and then resumed...
...past two years, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps Ill blocked Michael J. Hrnicek '96's pursuit of University recognition for his group, Harvard Christians in action (HCIA) with every tactic he could muster. Epps offered administrative delays, called for stringent application of campus guidelines, and exhorted the University to supersede those same rules, all to stop the Boston Church of Christ (BCC) from operating beneath the Harvard banner...