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MOSCOW: Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Moscow on Thursday for consultations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Christopher's reception in Moscow may be unseasonably chilly, coming on the heels of his reiteration this week of NATO's intention to expand its membership into the former Soviet bloc. The issue could prove troublesome for Yeltsin in the upcoming election campaign, providing anti-NATO Russian nationalists with political capital. NATO's plans to expand are not new. The process has been underway since 1994, and encountered staunch Russian opposition from the start, even though NATO...
Christopher suggested a summit meeting on terrorism to Clinton. Shimon Peres liked the idea, and so did Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton decided to go ahead. He and Mubarak jointly invited Peres, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Jordan's King Hussein, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and European and regional leaders to a conference this week at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Christopher also telephoned Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara. "I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Syrians attend," he said...
...Communists and Nationalists in the Duma are angry about the ruined Russian economy and the loss of superpower status." The vote has raised tensions among reformers and in the 14 former Republics unwilling to fall under Moscow's control again. But lacking the needed support of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the legislature's higher body, the Federation Council, the measure is almost certain to go nowhere...
...CANDIDATES] Boris Yeltsin, President Gennadi Zyuganov, Communist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Ultranationalist Grigori Yavlinsky, Reformist...
...OUTLOOK] With Yeltsin mired in Chechnya and backpedaling on economic reforms, Zyuganov and his communists appear poised for a spectacular comeback...