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Rumors, confusion and anxiety gripped Moscow so intensely last week that his Kremlin handlers just had to produce a live Boris Yeltsin. The President of Russia had not been seen publicly since his alarmingly inarticulate inaugural oath of office on Aug. 9, while all manner of confounding events were convulsing the country. See, presidential aides needed to demonstrate, he's still the boss. But Yeltsin's surprise photo op last Thursday evening provided precious little reassurance. He didn't look as frail and puffy or sound as slurred as he had in the inauguration, yet his appearance lasted only...
...under the terms of an agreement brokered last week by security chief Alexander Lebed, and rebel forces are also supposed to withdraw from some areas of the city. Lebed, who is in Moscow after briefing Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress in Chechnya, hoped to meet with Boris Yeltsin, but the President snubbed him and left for vacation instead. Yeltsin has reviewed a written report from Lebed, but has not yet commented on its merits. Yeltsin two weeks ago gave the former general sweeping authority over federal forces in Chechnya, where Muslim-led rebels have recently gained the upper...
...YELTSIN, THE NOWHERE...
...erstwhile reformer and now "nowhere man" Boris Yeltsin [WORLD, Aug. 5] has surrounded himself with other "nowhere men." They fiddle while the country burns. In the meantime, Western idealists and cynical Russians despair of ever finding a savior for the Motherland. Poor Russia, so far from God, so close to Siberia. LYNN R. ELIASON Logan, Utah
...brief Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress. Although the Lebed negotiated cease-fire remains tenuous but intact, winning the truce may have been the easy part. The backdrop to the meeting between the two men is the criticism Lebed has absorbed in recent days from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While politicians in Moscow plot, there is already stress on the fragile pact: Chechens troops attacked and disarmed a Russian convoy near the Chechen capital Grozny...