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...frequently -- and remained unpunished. "The steps the international community has taken are all worthy ones," says a Western diplomat. "But each has come far too late, in fact so late that they've only reaffirmed to Milosevic that he needn't fear force." The Western allies' decision to ignore Yeltsin's potential problems and push on over the weekend for an immediate deepening of sanctions against Serbia only repeats that pattern. Sanctions have not measurably weakened Belgrade's resolve, and are not likely to. Indeed, the campaign in Bosnia is so unquestioned in Belgrade that the nominally democratic opposition last...
Kicking off his campaign for a national vote of confidence, Boris Yeltsin stepped briskly before a restless, questioning crowd of students and instructors at the Moscow Aviation Institute last week. After a brief introduction, he jumped straight into his speech, speaking loudly and with no emotion. At one point, the head of the institute started chatting with colleagues sitting at a table behind Yeltsin, prompting the Russian President to interrupt his reading and glower at them. The mood lightened only when Yeltsin, 30 minutes into his speech, practiced a little pork-barrel politics and promised the students better living stipends...
...rare moment of humor in a listless campaign in which both candidate and voters have acted as if a week in the Gulag would be preferable to enduring one more speech. To break his deadlock with the nay-saying parliament, Yeltsin has organized a national vote on April 25 that will ask Russians whether they trust their President, whether they approve of his economic reform policies and whether they favor holding early elections for both President and the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin is determined to win yes votes on all four points...
When the votes are counted, Yeltsin will still be President, and his foes in the Congress of People's Deputies will still be bent on ousting him and watering down his reforms. To make matters worse, both sides will probably claim victory in the referendum. Yeltsin is likely to win a majority on the first question of the four on the ballot, which asks simply if Russian citizens support him. A tidy majority would be a personal triumph...
...That adds up to more than 53 million of the country's 106 million qualified adults -- an impossible feat for any politician in a democracy. By the Russian parliament's standard, no U.S. President could have made it to the White House. When he ran for President in 1991, Yeltsin captured 60% of the votes cast -- but even that landslide represented only 43% of the electorate...