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...regard everything from stop lights to income tax laws as suggestions, not orders. Corruption was always a part of life. What has changed, though, may be the willingness of Italians to do something about it. Voters will go to the polls this Sunday to register their outrage in a referendum on their discredited political system. A si vote -- widely expected -- will not undo decades of corruption or transform the political landscape overnight, but supporters of reform argue that the referendum is the best way to begin the difficult passage toward a more responsive -- and responsible -- political order...
Yeltsin at first said he would challenge the 50% rule but later decided against conducting a parallel referendum with more favorable questions. Meanwhile, Vyacheslav Kostikov, spokesman for Yeltsin, warned that Congress might try yet again to impeach Yeltsin before the referendum...
...SUPPORTERS HAVE PRONOUNCED HIM stronger than ever after his narrow escape from impeachment, Boris Yeltsin left plenty of uncertainties in the hands of his political enemies in the Congress of People's Deputies when he flew to Vancouver. The legislators did vote to approve Yeltsin's call for a referendum, but they then ruled that at least 50% of the entire 106 million electorate must support him -- not just half of all those who vote. Few believe Yeltsin can meet this target. Twisting the knife, the Congress tacked on an embarrassing question about Yeltsin's economic performance and two additional...
When asked about possible benefits of the Indonesian occupation, Pinto said. "We get nothing but guns and death from Indonesia." The group called for the withdrawal of the Indonesian army and advocated a U.N. sanctioned referendum on the future of East Timor...
...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...