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...hard-line Congress puts Russia squarely on the road to reform. Nothing will help rescue the Russian economy until the state brings hyperinflation under control; it cannot do that unless the central bank stops its wildly profligate printing of rubles; that seems unlikely to happen unless Yeltsin can wrest control of the bank from his parliamentary opponents. First aid cannot restore a body, or an economy, to health, but a country bleeding to death needs any help...
...attack on politicians is misguided when it focuses on the political operator's hedging or hesitating ways. George Washington stalled and twisted to wrest compromise from his Secretaries of State (Jefferson) and the Treasury (Hamilton). Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism under a cover of anticapitalist rhetoric. Dwight Eisenhower, under a bland exterior, conducted what historian Fred Greenstein calls a hidden-hand presidency. Other Presidents -- from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter -- were unsuccessful because they were not politicians, were not sufficiently able to bend themselves in order to bend others...
...plan to divide Somalia into four sectors aims to wrest control of the country from brigands in lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
...insiders advising Perot have decided that they must wrest management responsibility away from the volunteers, who are considered less reliable and certainly less pliable. "If you've got paid people working for you, you can come out with a plan and expect that it will be followed. If you have volunteers, you must meet with their approval, or they won't do it," says Meyerson...
...Morrison Knudsen, would do the best job manufacturing rail cars for the county's new transit system. In mid-December the commission voted 7 to 4 to award $122 million to Sumitomo for the job. But that was before President Bush made his ill-starred trip to Tokyo to wrest trade concessions from the Japanese and a shrill chorus shouting "Buy America" began to drown out all others on the L.A. commission. "No loyal American would hand over that contract to the Japanese," said Nate Holden, an L.A. city councilor. Last week the commission yanked the contract back from Sumitomo...