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Page 11* Wednesday, September 2, 1998
Yeltsin, Duma stay on collision course
Conflict over prime minister’s appointment still looms as Clinton arrives for summit
MOSCOW (AP) — President
Boris Yeltsin insisted Tdesday he
would not give up
democratic re
forms or Viktor
Chernomyrdin in
his standoff with
the Communist-
led parliament.
The dispute
threatened to
push Russia into yeltsin
early elections.
Yeltsin reassured President Clin
ton, who arrived for a summit in a
country paralyzed by its worst fi
nancial crisis of the post-Soviet era,
that he would not abandon reforms.
“The country will continue
building a market economy and a
democratic society,” the Kremlin
quoted the Russian president as
saying.
Yeltsin also insisted he would
not give up Chernomyrdin as his
choice for prime minister, despite
the risk of months’ more uncer
tainty if that strategy fails. Russians
are anxious about the growing cri
sis, but there have been few signs
of panic on the streets.
Visiting a Moscow school on the
first day of classes, Yeltsin said he
believed the new government
could be formed within a week de
spite parliament’s rejection Mon
day of Chernomyrdin’s candidacy.
“Chernomyrdin is the candidate
I have chosen for prime minister
and I will insist upon it,” he said
matter-of-factly.
If lawmakers vote down
Yeltsin’s choice twice more, the
president must dissolve the State
Duma, parliament’s lower house,
and call new parliamentary elec
tions within three months. That
would leave the country to be
steered through crisis by Yeltsin de
crees and a stand-in government.
While Yeltsin seemed to be en
joying the pomp of a two-day visit
by Clinton, whom he greeted with
a bear hug in the Kremlin’s presi
dential study, the summit held lit
tle promise of significant achieve
ment. The Russian crisis remained
the real drama.
Top Communist lawmakers
showed no signs of backing down.
A second vote on Chernomyrdin is
likely next Monday, though it could
come as early as Friday, said the
State Duma speaker, Gennady Se
leznyov.
“He doesn’t have a chance,” Se
leznyov declared.
Party leader Gennady Zyuganov
has hurled such invectives at
Yeltsin, calling him a drunk among
other things, that it seemed unlike
ly he could reverse course, as Com
munist lawmakers have done in
past showdowns to save their jobs.
“He decided to rape the State
Duma and the whole nation,”
Zyuganov told reporters, referring
to Yeltsin’s renomination of Cher
nomyrdin. “That is an insult to all
people of Russia.
“President Yeltsin is pushing the
nation to a civil war,” said the Com
munist leader, who meets with
Clinton on Wednesday.
Clinton calls for
further reforms
in Russia crisis
Americans struggle with
facts of Lewinsky scandal
CLINTON
MOSCOW (AP) — At a
Kremlin summit darkened by
economic and political up
heaval, President Clinton of
fered Boris Yeltsin a prescrip
tion of tough reforms Tliesday
to lift Russia
from crisis.
“You have
to play by
the rules” of
internation
al econom
ics, Clinton
said.
Yeltsin,
despite pres
sure from
the Communist-dominated
parliament, pledged not to
abandon the Tree-market
course on which Russia em
barked seven years ago.
“The past two years in
Russia’s life have been full
of stormy political events,
great laborious work on re
forming the economy,”
Yeltsin said in dinner re
marks. “Soon there were
disappointments, too, and
unfulfilled hopes. But
we’ve never lost the con
viction in the necessity of
the transformations we’re
carrying out.”
With Russia gripped in a
power struggle, U.S. officials
said the situation was too
uncertain to predict what
kind of economic remedies
would be embraced. They
said Yeltsin and his acting
prime minister, Viktor Cher
nomyrdin, indicated there
were areas requiring more
government involvement,
such as social safety nets and
steps to pay back wages.
They signed off on preset
deals to reduce their arse
nals of military-grade pluto
nium from dismantled nu
clear weapons and share
information on missile
launch tests. The agree
ments will be formally
sealed at a concluding news
conference Wednesday.
The summit, their sev
enth, comes at a troublesome
time for both leaders. Humil
iated by his admission of an
extramarital affair, Clinton is
struggling to recapture his
political credibility. Yeltsin,
discredited by broken
promises and policy changes,
has devalued the Russian
currency, stopped repaying
foreign loans and watched
the stock market crumble.
YORK, Pa. (AP) — Jodie Tierney
taps an index finger on her lips. Her
eyes get misty. Her voice drops. “I’m at
a loss,” she whispers.
The sadness with which she pon
dered the possibility of Clinton resigning
echoed among a dozen Americans of all
political persuasions who sat down this
week to sort through their feelings about
the Monica Lewinsky investigation.
In earnest talk over pretzels and chips,
they opened up to Democratic pollster
Peter Hart as part of a focus group de
signed to look beyond opinion polls that
give the president high approval ratings
and poor marks personally.
Their zigzag emotions, laid bare dur
ing two hours of talk in a small-town
conference room, mirror those of a na
tion still coming to grips with matters
of truth and consequences.
They want the Lewinsky matter re
solved but say they will not give Clinton
a free pass. They are firm that the presi
dent should uphold the law but wary of
punishing perjury with impeachment.
Most of these Pennsylvanians — Re
publicans, Democrats and indepen
dents — are happy with the job Clinton
is doing as president yet profoundly dis
appointed in him as a man.
Thirty-year-old Angela Crum, a
homemaker and a Republican, paid 8.5
percent on her first mortgage and has a
6.5 percent rate on her new one.
“I’m high-fiving the economy,” she
says, explaining her approval for Clinton.
But she does not condone his private
conduct. “I think that we’re all human,
that’s fine,” she says. “But you can also
control it. ... He chose to do that.”
Karen Schaale, 39, a fiscal officer
and a Democrat, speaks of “great reser
vations” about Clinton morally, then
sizes him up this way: “Take out the
scandal, and how many bad things can
you write down on the list?”
Jeff Kirkland, a 49-year-old youth
counselor and a political independent,
feels most disappointed that Clinton
would jeopardize so much to indulge
himself personally.
“He knew he was under scrutiny. It
seems like he’d have better sense than
even to try it,” says Kirkland. “He had
a great thing going, a great plan going.”
Participants started out generally
satisfied with Clinton and dismissing
the Lewinsky affair as a private matter
that should go away.
Asked what would be the turning
point for them, what would warrant the
president’s resignation, most settled on
lying under oath.
There was lots of talk about uphold
ing the Constitution and the rule of law.
“1 feel he should be man enough to
resign if he has actually committed per
jury,” said Schaale. “All politicians
know what perjury is.”
“He doesn’t deserve to be there if he
lied,” agreed Marvin Anderson, 40-
year-old quality manager who de
scribes himself as a strong Democrat.
“He’s the ultimate leader and he’s the
one who sets the example.”
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