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Russia, however, views the prospect of a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan with undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...
MOSCOW: Just a day after rumors of his death sent financial markets plunging, Russian President Boris Yeltsin released a statement designed to show the nation he is running the show. Thursday, the feisty leader accused large companies of contributing to Russia's looming debt crisis by dodging their taxes. On Friday, he intends to broadcast the second of his radio talks, explaining what measures the government will take to up its income. Yeltsin is reacting to unprecedented shortfalls which have pushed the Finance Ministry to cut expenditures and borrow more money just to keep the government functioning. Tax evasion...
...year-old woman, the victim of a road accident, and placed it in the chest of a 55-year-old man to perform the first heart transplant. The recipient died of pneumonia 18 days later, but at the time, Dr. Michael DeBakey, who consulted on Boris Yeltsin's surgery last week, declared it to be "a great achievement." Suffering from arthritis, Barnard retired in 1983. Since then he has written a number of novels. His latest book, The Donor, was just published in England. Barnard spends a lot of time on a 32,000-acre ranch with his third wife...
...problems). For example, agency physicians privately concluded that the late French President Francois Mitterrand had cancer more than a decade before he made it public. But on July 3, on the morning of the Russian presidential vote, the CIA received a call from Clinton aides: Why hasn't Boris Yeltsin been seen for four days? The CIA's response: Maybe a virus? Administration officials now tell TIME that they didn't learn how ill Yeltsin was during that absence until Sept. 20, when his doctor admitted on TV that the President had suffered a heart attack...
That leaves Chubais, 41, the head of the presidential administration, a sprawling bureaucratic empire--its in-house phone book is 230 pages long--that sometimes oversees and sometimes duplicates the work of government. Since making a major contribution to Yeltsin's re-election victory, Chubais has become a key political figure, combining in his person what were until recently two key roles--head of the administration and senior aide to the President. His relations with Luzhkov are by his own admission "complex"--the two men have in fact been bitterly and publicly critical of each other. He has clearly been...