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...plotted the aborted 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Though Yeltsin's aides insisted that the parliament had overstepped its authority, hard-liners Khasbulatov and Rutskoi were released from prison on Saturday. It was the first sign that Russia's new legislature is prepared to launch a full frontal assault on the President...
Organizers said they will launch a campus-wide fundraising effort this week...
Coalition members said they were moved to launch the group after a speech last Tuesday by writer and activist Leonard Fine in Emerson Hall...
...nicknamed "the King," seems to be preparing to enter North Carolina's 1996 gubernatorial election, as state G.O.P. officials have urged him to do. The longtime county commissioner has announced that he won't seek re-election, but that doesn't mean he's leaving politics. He recently helped launch both the Richard Petty Political Action Committee and the Richard Petty Policy Group. Paul Shumaker Jr., Petty's political consultant, will say only, "The formation of pac and the policy group does elevate his involvement in the political process...
...fact, new questions keep popping up even as special counsel Robert Fiske prepares to launch his probe into all aspects of the mess. The latest: Did Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, back in Arkansas days, underpay their federal income taxes by much more than they have previously admitted? A TIME examination of bank records, interviews with some leading participants and consultations with tax experts indicate that is at least enough of a possibility to warrant a close look by Fiske and his probers...