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TIME, like most Western media, still buys the myth that Yeltsin is a reformer and a democrat. But face it, he was never the initiator of democratic reforms in Russia. On the contrary, he relies heavily on the old apparatus. Yeltsin made a party career under Leonid Brezhnev, attempted a power grab in a military coup and finally was able to establish himself as a semi-dictator. Since then he has started a war with Chechnya and dismissed all its critics. Yeltsin is responsible for the continued killing of thousands of civilians, including children. Is this the democrat the West...
Thanks to innovative choreography (including a tucked double-front somersault with a half twist), 17-year-old Ukrainian Lilia Podkopayeva tumbled her way to victory in the overall event at the European women's gymnastic championships in Birmingham, England. The next day she captured two more golds in the apparatus finals. Still, the current world champion feels her performance has room for improvement: "I'll try to avoid all my mistakes when I'm in Atlanta...
Zyuganov steadily climbed the rungs of the regional party apparatus in Oryol, becoming chief of ideology. He was also tapped by the party's Central Committee to go to Moscow. Instead of settling behind a desk, Zyuganov was sent around the Soviet Union to check on party work, an experience that he says put him in touch with the country's problems. In 1990 he broke with then party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and helped found a hard-line Communist Party based in Russia...
...prepared to renounce his candidacy after having worked so hard. Yavlinsky too is not straining at the bit to join the Yeltsin ticket. He has severely criticized the war in Chechnya, and might ask Yeltsin to dismiss the heads of Russia's military and security apparatus in return for his support. "There has been a lot of talk recently about various alliances," says TIME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Kohan. "Various groups are proposing coalitions to preserve stability in Russia, but most of them are simply pre-election manipulations. Yeltsin is trying to expand his power base. If he goes...
...lacking Billy's curiosity about and respect for the intellectual and theological worlds, and for all his personal magnetism, he is uninterested in playing politics, even within the confines of evangelical gatherings. He offers little to contradict Martin's picture of a fairly conservative caretaker of his father's apparatus, unwilling and perhaps unable to push it back into the center of the zeitgeist. And yet no one else has his father's blessing. Says Billy: "Franklin is a leader. When he walks into a room, people sense his presence." Or, as the prodigal's father might have...