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- <text id=93TT1096>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Boris, Meet Bill
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- WORLD
- Boris, Meet Bill
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>An April U.S.-Russia summit could help Yeltsin hold his enemies
- at bay
- </p>
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- <p> Even for a country in perpetual crisis, events in Russia last
- week seemed more foreboding than usual. While President Boris
- Yeltsin was on an impromptu vacation, he continued to trade
- accusations--but made no progress in resolving differences
- over how to share power--with archrival Ruslan Khasbulatov,
- the capricious chairman of Russia's parliament. In remarks echoed
- by his Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, Yeltsin used an interview
- on the eve of the biggest Soviet-era military holiday to rebuke
- hard-liners, including dissident officers, for trying "to play
- the army card" in a bid to derail Russian democracy. The next
- day 20,000 procommunist and ultranationalist demonstrators rallied
- next to the Kremlin to demand Yeltsin's resignation. A penchant
- for disappearing during major power struggles again raised public
- doubts about Yeltsin's health and political acumen. But the
- beleaguered President could take comfort in the week's only
- bright spot: an announcement that he and U.S. President Bill
- Clinton will hold their first summit on April 4. The meeting
- should provide some much needed luster to the besieged President's
- image.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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