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...instance, you could be Boris Yeltsin. On Monday, he checked into a hospital for the umpteenth time this year, this time for a bleeding ulcer. I needn't convince anyone that having a whole in one's stomach can go a long way to dampering one's day. Add to his obvious physical distress the awareness that his country is falling into shambles, and you've probably got one sorry spirit...
...though erroneous--echoed in Britain's Parliament, in French editorials and throughout the Arab world. FOR MONICA'S SAKE, IRAQI CHILDREN ARE DYING read a sign waved during a demonstration at a Cairo mosque. From Russia and China came deep grumblings that the U.S. had overstepped itself. Said Boris Yeltsin: "The U.S. and Great Britain have crudely violated the U.N. charter and generally accepted principles of international law and the norms and rules of responsible behavior of states...
...funeral last week there was a collective sense of outrage. Coming on the heels of a burst of depressing public statements--anti-Semitic diatribes by another member of parliament, claims that the Russian security services were being used for free-lance assassinations, allegations of corruption leveled against Yeltsin--the killing reminded everyone of the dark side of Russian politics. And it has reignited the old debate about how Russia should be ruled: Can liberal democracy work, or is a more authoritarian hand needed...
...STALIN HAS THE FLU Official statements that the hospitalized Boris Yeltsin is merely susceptible to colds hark back to a bygone...
...constitutional changes may, however, meet with strong resistance. "Some presidential candidates will want early elections if Yeltsin goes because their images won't stand lengthy scrutiny," says Quinn-Judge. And the murder of one would-be presidential candidate last weekend was the surest sign that the post-Yeltsin transition will be anything but seamless...