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- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: He's Up. He's Down. But Is He Out?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- WORLD
- He's Up. He's Down. But Is He Out?
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- <body>
- <p>Though Yeltsin's crisis churns on, a compromise is still possible
- </p>
- <p> Elections--some kind, sometime. That proposition began
- emerging as the key to resolution of Russia's political crisis,
- although it remained unclear if in fact one can be reached.
- Early in the week Russia's Constitutional Court ruled that
- President Boris Yeltsin's proclamation of "special rule'' was
- unconstitutional, a declaration expected to form the basis for
- impeachment. But when Yeltsin finally published his decree for
- an April referendum on his own rule and the outline of a new
- constitution, it did not mention special rule. The court looked
- at best overly hasty and partisan in condemning a nonexistent
- document.
- </p>
- <p> By the time the Congress of People's Deputies met Friday,
- even Yeltsin's archenemy, Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, was
- disavowing impeachment. However, that issue remains in doubt.
- On Sunday an attempt at compromise threw the crisis into an
- explosive new phase. Yeltsin and Khasbulatov stunned the
- Congress with a new plan calling for elections and abandonment
- of the April 25 referendum. The Deputies reacted angrily, voting
- down the plan and agreeing to a secret ballot on the removal of
- Khasbulatov and the impeachment of Yeltsin. Both men survived
- the secret vote. When the Congress convened, Yeltsin was
- predicting that "there will be no winners. It will be a tie."
- Breaking that tie may take time, and chaos may continue, but the
- country seemed ready to pull back from the brink.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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