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president — declared Monday that
he will step aside when his term ex
pires in 2000, clearing the way for a
pack of candidates already jockey
ing to succeed him.
Yeltsin’s recent health problems
and a two-term limit in the consti
tution already had appeared to rule
out a third term for the Russian
leader. But his sudden announce
ment at a Moscow school still
caught many by surprise.
“My term ends in 2000.1 will not
run anymore,” Yeltsin told children
and teachers on the first day of
classes at School No. 1253.
Looking upbeat and smiling,
the 66-year-old Yeltsin said
younger, more energetic people
would be needed to run the coun
try in the future.
“We have a very good team —
a good, friendly and intelligent
team,” he said, suggesting that his
preferred successor would come
tion.
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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
of pneumonia early this year, re
turned to full-time duty several
months ago. He appears in good
health and no one questions his in
tention to serve out the final three
years of his current term.
Yeltsin has kept up an active
to complete free-market reforms,
while repeatedly locking horns
with the communists and nation
alists in Parliament.
The Russian economy, which
has been in a free fall for most of the
1990s, is stabilizing, although mil
lions of Russians are rpired in
poverty and only modest growth is
forecast in the coming years.
The 1993 Russian constitution
limits a president to two terms, but
some Yeltsin supporters reportedly
had been looking for ways to allow
him to seek a third, four-year term.
However, there had been no indica
tion that Yeltsin himself wanted to
find a way around the constitution
al limit.
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of potential presidential candi
dates for 2000, although none
could be considered a front-run
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princess Monday in silent, patient, and grieving
lines, and heard the latest from France with new
dismay: Diana’s driver was loaded with alcohol
when he roar ed off for her final ride.
The black Mercedes-Benz sedan may have
been hurtling along at more than 100 mph when
it crashed in a Paris tunnel early Sunday, killing
Princess Diana, millionaire boyfriend Dodi Fayed,
and the driver, a French source reported.
The news hit hard in a nation already coping
with losing such ayouthful icon so abruptly—and
angered that celebrity photographers, who had
chased the speeding vehicle, may have been part
ly responsible.
But outside St. James’s Palace, where Diana’s
coffin lay within a closed chapel, the thoughts of
ordinary Britons seemed to turn again and again
to die life, not the death, of the “people’s princess.”
“Diana was the one in the royal family who was
most on our level,” said Halaena Hankin, one of
thousands waiting for hours to sign books of con
dolence inside St. James’s.
“She added the style and the flavor that the
monarchy needed,” said London businessman
Christopher Buckmaster. “Now the monarchy will
be poorer.”
Buckingham Palace announced Diana’s fu
neral will be conducted at 11 a.m. (6 a.m. EDT)
Saturday at Westminster Abbey — where kings
and queens are christened and crowned, wed
and buried.
It will be a state event, but not quite a full state
funeral, Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
Diana, Princess ofWales, lost the full title of
Her Royal Highness upon her divorce from
Prince Charles last year, but retained many of
her privileges.
The former Diana Spencer, mother of England’s
future king, Prince William, will then be buried pri
vately in her family’s ancestral chapel near A1 thorp,
the family home 60 miles north of London. There
lie 20 generations of Spencers.
The government, not wanting the funeral cer
emonies to involve merely “the great and the
good,” as Blair’s spokesperson put it, will include
as many ordinary Britons as possible.
“There should be people there who represent
ed the causes she touched and the people that she
touched,” he said. The palace said it plans to issue
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Symphony Orchestra
1997-1998 Concert Season
Marcelo Bussiki, Music Director
Attention All Texas A&.M University Students
The Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra will
audition musicians ior the following instruments:
French Horn Clarinet
Trumpet Oboe
Trombone Flute
Bassoon Percussion
and All Strings
Auditions will bo held on:
Tuesday, September 2, 1997
7:00 to 10:00 pan.
Room 402, Academic Building
Audition Requirements: The appli
cant will be asked to perform two works
of bis or her choice, as well as sight read
an orchestral excerpt.
NOTE: Credit information: (Muse 286- Symphony
Orchestra) can be applied towards fulfilling the require
ments for Music Minor, or as 1 hour of general electives.
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Much of the nation will stand still during the™ n 6 more stull;
televised funeral. London airports will suspend ma ' n proble
service and many stores will close. L difficulty in di
The investigation of the crash took an eveif enton an Y partic
more dramatic turn with the statement byb 1 does not have t
French prosecutors that an analysis of drivel™ 11 ^ 1 mams of ct
Henri Paul’s blood found “that the alcohol lev!
el was illegal.”
A French judicial source, speaking on con*;
dition of anonymity, said it was 1.75 grams per!
liter of blood — more than three times France'!
legal limit.
Under France’s strict law, exceeding 0.5^
grams — the level after about two glasses ofl I |
wine — is considered a misdemeanor, and 0.8^ J
grams is a greater offense. The 0.5-gram limit?
translates to a blood-alcohol content of about
0.065 percent. Most U.S. states consider a dri
ver legally drunk if the blood-alcohol content
reaches 0.1 percent.
A source close to the investigation said the Mer
cedes’ speedometer was found stuck at 196 kilo- rriexas
meters per hour — 121 mph — after the crash, a I A&M
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