Word: victors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime-time TV that he would be having heart surgery at the end of the month. The news was greeted calmly in Moscow and with quiet relief by Western diplomats, who have long said they would like to see either a healthy President or a new one. Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and National Security Adviser Alexander Lebed, the two most prominent candidates to be Yeltsin's successor, were deferentially silent. In the background, however, it was not difficult to hear the sound of knives sharpening as the two men prepared for the next round of their personal struggle for primacy...
...that's where the real struggle in this battle lies. Netscape and Microsoft are competing not against each other so much as against their own obsolescence. The victor will be not the company with the best browser but the team that can run the longest on this insanely fast product-development treadmill...
...Chechnya or to also consolidate his power base within the Kremlin? Lebed, who came into Yeltsin's circle only a few months ago after finishing third in the first round of Russian elections, has already made enemies in the Yeltsin camp, most notably Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin who resents Lebed's continuing attempts at self promotion. Although Yeltsin hasn't yet given Lebed the go-ahead, he may do so in order to give him a certain amount of rope, possibly in the hope that the tough-talking ex-soldier will hang himself. "If Lebed makes peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin...
While the Communists dream of power, those who wield it appear adrift, as a fin-de-regime cloud settles over the Kremlin and the maneuvering for power within intensifies. At least two members of the new Yeltsin team, Lebed and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, have obvious presidential ambitions and little love for each other. Lebed's aides in fact privately hint that Chernomyrdin will be a prime target of their planned anticorruption campaign. Both, however, are deeply wary of Anatoli Chubais, the new chief of the presidential staff. An ambitious, tough-minded proponent of privatization, Chubais in turn shares with...
...threat of terrorism can never be entirely erased. Tightening airport security is like squeezing one end of a balloon: if airlines become too difficult a target, terrorists will point their weapons at a bulge elsewhere. "There is always," says international terrorism expert Victor LeVine, a professor at Washington University, "some window of opportunity." Whether an act of terrorism brought down TWA Flight 800 or not, some of those windows could be closed before tragedy can strike again...