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...Bruce W. Nelan. Reported by Dean Fischer/Washington and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
MOSCOW: The second bomb in as many days exploded on a Moscow city bus Friday morning. At least 27 were injured, eight seriously, when TNT hidden in a cloth bag tore the front end from a bus about three miles north of the Kremlin. President Yeltsin and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attack on terrorists, closed the main roads leading out of Moscow, and flooded the city with police. "Luzhkov thinks that Chechens or criminals opposed to the new anti-crime policy are responsible," says TIME's Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, who doubts the separatist guerrillas are behind the attacks...
...Yeltsin's own advisers feared that Zyuganov could win if less than 60 percent of Russia's 106 million voters showed up at the polls. But Yeltsin was not without last minute support: Early Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made a radio appeal to voters, as did Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and economic reformer Yegor Gaidar -->