Word: yeltsin
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...Ames scandal catches Yeltsin at a particularly fragile time in his ) presidency. Faced with continued opposition from ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his conservative and communist followers in parliament, Yeltsin has been forced to retreat from the grand promises of reform he made to Clinton in January. Last week the parliament voted overwhelmingly to grant amnesty to Ruslan Khasbulatov and Alexander Rutskoi, two leaders of the failed 1993 uprising against Yeltsin's government, as well as to the men who plotted the aborted 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Though Yeltsin's aides insisted that the parliament had overstepped its authority, hard...
...relationship, the Ames scandal could probably not have come at a worse time for the Clinton Administration: the furor has galvanized opposition to the President's unstinting support for Russian reform at a moment when there are disturbing signs that the bulwark behind that reform, Boris Yeltsin, may be buckling under pressure from hard-line forces...
...little and too late satisfy congressional critics -- was combined with a strongly worded statement affirming that support remains unchanged. "I do not think," declared Clinton, "that the facts of this case undermine in any way, shape or form the policy we have followed the last year toward President Yeltsin and the forces of change in Russia...
...Clinton will breathe a sigh of relief if NATO planes do not have to fly bombing runs over the fog-wrapped mountains of Bosnia. A peaceful withdrawal will let him and the rest of the West claim it is the result of their toughness in facing down the Serbs. Yeltsin will score political points at home for standing by his Slav friends and abroad for his seriousness as an international peacemaker...
...negotiations once again. The U.S. is reluctant, in part because a showy meeting in Europe might take the spotlight off the issue of Serb withdrawal. It would be even more difficult to drop bombs while a peace conference is under way, officials say. But Clinton has told Yeltsin he wants to work directly with him on the diplomacy of a Bosnia settlement. At best, the end of the Sarajevo bombardment, if it sticks, will make civilian life a bit more tolerable while the talk goes...