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MOSCOW: Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin visited a Moscow school Tuesday -- an appropriate venue to open a summit at which the U.S. president will learn some hard lessons. "No matter what he says in public, Clinton is going to come away rather shaken from his meetings with Yeltsin," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Until now there's been a lot of wishful thinking going on in Washington, but there's little chance that Yeltsin will show the necessary intellectual stamina to convince the Americans that he's in charge...
Then what? There are plenty of dire predictions. Moscow is muttering that Yeltsin might declare a state of emergency, a move that would probably be seen as a retreat from democracy. Some are worried that Yeltsin might form a government of national unity that would take in communists and fascists and bring reform to a halt or put it into reverse...
...until the 2000 election, they might not take to the barricades, but they are apt to protest with their votes. Western experts are concerned that Russians could reject what has been peddled to them as democracy and capitalism and toss it all overboard. The leading candidates to succeed Yeltsin already include Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and retired General Alexander Lebed, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk province. Luzhkov cultivates the air of a strongman and is no fan of reform. Lebed's political views are hard to discern, but he, like Luzhkov, is a firm nationalist. If either were elected President...
...wants fervently to avoid. Although they disapproved of the devaluation, the Clinton Administration and the IMF say they will work with Moscow to get through the crisis and pursue broader reforms. When Bill Clinton arrives in Moscow on Sept. 1 for a two-day summit, he intends to tell Yeltsin that. But because democracy has begun to take hold in Russia, the country's wary voters will ultimately decide its course...
...worst possible thing President Clinton could ask when he arrives in Moscow Tuesday, because Russia's political leadership is no closer to filling its power vacuum than it is to resolving the country's economic crisis. The Duma on Monday rejected Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister, while Boris Yeltsin has already accepted a lame-duck presidency by agreeing to relinquish many of his executive powers. That leaves the tycoon kingmaker Boris Berezovsky as the most powerful man in Moscow, but the latter-day Rasputin is not on Clinton's itinerary...