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The Battalion
Thursday, September23,1
Yeltsin's quest gaining more strength
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris
Yeltsin's bid to control Russia
gained strength Wednesday,
buoyed by support from the
army and cheering crowds. His
hard-line opposition sat barri
caded in parliament.
Bonfires burned for a second
night outside the Russian parlia
ment building, where as many as
5,000 anti-Yeltsin demonstrators
ringed the building to protest his
suspension of parliament Tues
day. Protesters waved red Soviet
flags and stockpiled rocks, pipes
and Molotov cocktails.
Despite appeals by Yeltsin's
opponents for a nationwide
strike, there were no reports of
protests elsewhere.
Hundreds of people applauded
and shouted “We support you!"
when Yeltsin and his military
commanders made an impromptu
visit to Moscow's downtown
Pushkin Square.
“He should have done this a
long time ago," said Alexander
Kuznetsov, 47, who 1 sells pho
tographs to tourists in the square.
“The Russian people have put up
with a lot, and the parliament is
just resorting to hooligan tactics."
“We would not like and do not
Supporters boost Russian president's
decision for suspension of parliament
intend to use any force," Yeltsin
said. “We want everything to go
peacefully, without blood."
Defense Minister Pavel
Grachev said the military “un
equivocally supports the presi
dent as commander-in-chief." In
an apparent show of force, the
The opposition has demanded
presidential elections.
Support for Yeltsin poured in
from world leaders, including
President Clinton, and from
neighboring republics of the for
mer Soviet Union.
About 150 members of the
"We would not like and do not
intend to use any force. We want
everything to go peacefully,
without blood."
-Boris Yeltsin,
Russian President
army held troop exercises in sev
eral cities.
Yeltsin has been locked in an
18-month power struggle with
lawmakers who want to slow the
country's transition to free mar
kets, prop up state industries and
pursue a more nationalistic for
eign policy. Yeltsin has long
sought parliamentary elections
and a post-Soviet constitution.
Supreme Soviet, remained holed
up in the White House, or parlia
ment building, where they gath
ered following Yeltsin's Tuesday
night announcement stripping
them of power and calling for elec
tions to replace them in December.
Led by speaker Ruslan Khasbu-
latov, the legislators declared
Yeltsin's action unconstitutional
and moved to impeach him. They
named Vice President Alexandti
Rutskoi acting president and vot
ed to replace the heads of the niit-
tary, police and security police.
Lawmakers also unanimouslj
adopted amendments to Russia's
criminal code to add a newartids
imposing capital punishmentloi
the “violent alteration of thecoiv
stitutional system."
Legislators were trying to
bring Yeltsin's ouster to a vole
before the full parliament. Legis
lator Ivan Shashviashvili saidM
of the 1,041 members of the
gress had signed up for a session
set for Thursday; 689 are needed
for a quorum.
The lawmakers urged Prime
Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to
join them. In an emotional speeds
to regional leaders Wednesday,
Chernomyrdin called his support
for Yeltsin “unequivocal"
said new elections are necessary
to bring stability to Russia.He
urged calm until then.
“Would we unleash a massacre
because of two months? V
history and the people forgive
us?" he asked.
Chernomyrdin said the Cabi
net backed Yeltsin, although For
eign Economics Minister Sergei
Glaziev submitted his resigna
tion, calling Yeltsin's decree
constitutional.
Vol. 93 No. I
Georgia rebels shoot down
another passenger plane
Terror in the skies continues, 80 people killed
The Associated Press
TBILISI, Georgia — Rebel fire downed
the second passenger plane in two days in
Georgia Wednesday, reportedly killing 80
people. At least 26 people reportedly es
caped after the plane crashed in Sukhumi.
The plane was only the second to land at
Sukhumi airport since it reopened earlier in
the day, following the shooting down of a
TU-134 jet over the Black Sea on Tuesday.
Twenty-eight people died in Tuesday's air
plane attack.
At least 80 passengers were killed
Wednesday, the Russian news agency In
terfax reported, quoting Georgian leader
Eduard Shevardnadze's press service. The
report could not be immediately con
firmed.
Twenty-six people scrambled off the
burning jet before it exploded, presidential
spokesman Vata Djordjikia.
“More died than escaped," he said.
It was not immediately known how
many people were on board the plane,
which had been traveling from the Geor
gian capital, Tbilisi to Sukhumi, the Geor
gian government's last stronghold in the
separatist-region of Abkhazia.
The rebels have been fighting the gov
ernment for more than a year over their de
mands for self-rule.
Djordjikia said the plane was a TU-154,
which can carry up to 180 passengers. The
six-member crew managed to evacuate 20
passengers, Djordjikia said.
The plane had been carrying humanitar
ian aid, Georgian officials said.
Like the plane that was downed on
Tuesday, the plane was hit by a heat-seek
ing missile fired from a gunboat of the
Abkhazian separatist forces, Georgia's Inte
rior Ministry said.
A third plane was about to land at
Sukhumi on Wednesday when it saw the
explosion and turned hack to Tbilisi.
Fierce fighting was reported around
Sukhumi on Wednesday as government
troops tried to break through to the airport.
Details of the fighting were sketchy be
cause phones to Sukhumi were cut Tues
day night.
Sukhumi is the government's last strong
hold in the separatist region of Abkhazia.
Shevardnadze has remained in the city
despite the fighting, and visited the front
Wednesday to boost troop morale.
In an offensive that began a week ago,
the rebels have reached the city's out
skirts but have been held off by govern
ment troops.
Georgian troops claimed some
progress Wednesday in their push north
from Tbilisi along the coastal highway
linking Sukhumi with the rest of Georgia.
The Abkhazians also reported gains, ac
cording to ITAR-Tass.
Shevardnadze's chief of staff, Vhaja
Lortkipanidze, quoted the Georgian leader
as telling reporters: “The situation in
Sukhumi is improving ... our forces are ad
vancing toward us."
Georgian military spokesman Vladimir
Chikovani reported heavy casualties.
Shevardnadze has appealed to Russia
and the West for help. Parliament speaker
Vakhtang Goguadze issued a statement
Wednesday supporting Boris Yeltsin in the
Russian president's power struggle with
hard-line lawmakers in Moscow.
UNICEF Report:
U.S. children face
higher poverty rate
The Associated Press
LONDON — American and British children
are worse off now than in 1970, while many dc
veldping countries have made great strides in re
ducing birth rales and child mortality, UNICEF
reported Wednesday.
Many African women have a one-in-five
chance of dying in childbirth. For an Israeli, the
chance is three in 100,000.
The United Nations Children's Fund said the
gap is narrowing between rich and poor.
The report, “The Progress of Nations," said
one-fifth of American children live below the
poverty line — four times the rate of most indus
trialized countries, and twice that of the next
worst performer, Britain.
UNICEF Flxecutive Director James P. Grant
blamed cutbacks in government services for the
decline in the United States and Britain, but said
that President Clinton's health care reforms
would improve things.
The U.S. child mortality rate of 11 per 1,000
ranked 19th among industrialized nations. The
18 per 1,000 death rate among black American
children was more than twice that of whites. The
world average rate is 97 per 1,000.
Sweden had the lowest child mortality rate
among those nations, with five per 1,000.
The report said, “The United States has by far
the highest percentage of children living in
poverty: 20 percent, which represents a 21 per
cent increase since 1970."
Conditions for American children have dete
riorated over the last 30 years because more
mothers have to work and more children arc
growing up without fathers, the report said, One
in four American children are raised by single
mothers, up from 10 percent in 1960.
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