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When Boris Yeltsin's 63rd birthday rolled around last Tuesday, a reporter was unable to resist asking Victor Chernomyrdin whether he had sprung any special surprises on his boss. "We presented him with a huge bouquet of flowers," Chernomyrdin solemnly intoned. "We doubt if he received a bigger one from anyone else. We knew we couldn't allow this. Ours was the best...
...many Russians, Victor Chernomyrdin, 55, is the only politician besides Yeltsin with the toughness, stability and integrity of character needed to pull the post-Soviet economy out of its tailspin. To Moscow's radical democrats, however, he personifies what former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov calls the "lifeless and illiterate state-planning ideology of the red managers." To the West, Chernomyrdin appears little better than a dark horseman of Russia's impending apocalypse -- a flashback to Brezhnevite stagnation whose disdain for the most basic prescriptions of capitalism threatens to destroy reform...
House Committee Co-chair Victor Chiu '94-'95 said he does not believe student responses have been "flooding in." But Chiu added, "It's a good, sincere effort by the Masters to try to get input from students...
Other fellows include former Cambridge Mayor and City Councillor Alice K. Wolf, former Minneapolis Mayor Don Fraser and Victor S. Navasky, editor-in-chief of The Nation...
...VICTOR CHERNOMYRDIN...