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- <text id=93TT1437>
- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: While the Cat's Away
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- WORLD
- While the Cat's Away
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Russia's Congress tries another way to unseat the President
- </p>
- <p> While his 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
- questions about early elections for the presidency and the
- Congress.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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