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...surprising extent, Western aid appears to be buying resentment. One placard waved by demonstrators in Moscow pictured Yeltsin fatuously caressing a cow labeled RUSSIAN FREEDOM, while an evil-looking Uncle Sam milked dollars from the cow's udder. Russians are irritated that so much Western help seemed to be promised and so little appears to have been delivered. And some are suspicious that foreigners are out to swindle them; they resist making their once powerful country look like a Western clone...
Very little can be done until a resolution of Yeltsin's conflict with the hard-line Congress puts Russia squarely on the road to reform. Nothing will help rescue the Russian economy until the state brings hyperinflation under control; it cannot do that unless the central bank stops its wildly profligate printing of rubles; that seems unlikely to happen unless Yeltsin can wrest control of the bank from his parliamentary opponents. First aid cannot restore a body, or an economy, to health, but a country bleeding to death needs any help...
Last summer Gvozdikova lived with her parents in Boris Yeltsin's hometown, a city of 2 million called Yekaterinburg, about 1,000 miles east of Moscow -- and the place where Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down in 1960. Today, thanks to a few good-hearted citizens in Ruston, Louisiana, who are raising $50,000 to cover their tuition and expenses for four years, Gvozdikova and her twin sister are enrolled at Louisiana Tech University. "When I left last July," explains Gvozdikova, who so wants to blend into America that she calls herself Nancy, "I thought things...
...Buzz Eades, a sixth-generation logger, speaking at the Oregon forest conference attended by Bill Clinton, en route to his Vancouver, Canada rendezvous with Boris Yeltsin...
DOOMSDAY ISSUES HAD NOT QUITE DISAPPEARED from the table. They lurked, in the form of two strategic-arms agreements yet to be put into full effect, as reminders of the cost of failing. But when Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin took their seats for Saturday's opening summit session, held in Vancouver, the throw weights on the agenda were denominated less in nuclear megatonnage than in dollars and acres of private farmland and doses of medicine and people-to- people exchanges. The two Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian...