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MOSCOW — The Russian gov
ernment gave increasingly isolated
lawmakers five days to leave the par
liament building or “face the conse
quences” Wednesday. Besieged hard
liners vowed to hold out.
The government kept up a tight
cordon of razor-wire, guns and thou
sands of armed riot police and troops
around the building. The hard-liners
showed no signs of surrendering, and
the government’s ultimatum threat
ened to paint President Boris Yeltsin
into a comer of his own.
The government didn’t spell out
what it meant by “serious consequenc
es,” but it will be expected to do
something if the lawmakers continue
to hold out past Monday. Foreign
Minister Andrei V. Kozyrev ofTered
fresh assurances Wednesday that force
would not be used in the showdown,
but Yeltsin may ultimately have no
other option. For a second straight
night, police with rubber batons
clashed with hundreds of people who
tried to demonstrate in support of
parliament. Protesters threw bottles
at police. One lawmaker was injured.
Also on Wednesday, elite para
troopers reinforced hundreds of po
lice surrounding parliament Wednes
day as authorities stepped up the pres
sure on hard-1 ine lawmakers who have
defied Yeltsin.
A senior police officer died of in
juries Wednesday after he was pushed
in front of a car by anti-Yeltsin pro
testers during a clash with police, the
Interior Ministry said. Lt. Col.
Vladimir Reshtuk was the third per
son to be killed in connection with the
parliament crisis.
Riot police wielding shields and
batons Wednesday chased away some
300 parliament supporters who had
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been waiting peacefully outside po
lice lines around the building. Police
chased the crowd into a nearby train
station.
Yeltsin has ruled out compromise
since he dissolved the Soviet-era par
liament a week ago. He ordered par
liamentary elections for December to
end a bitter power struggle with par
liamentary hard-liners over hf^ polit
ical and free-market reforms. He set
presidential elections in June.
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The deployment of police rein
forcements around parliament in
creased the war of nerves on the in
creasingly demoralized and isolated
lawmakers who have been holed up in
the building, called the White House.
Earlier, police pushed back dem
onstrators who tried to break through
to parliament. Protesters hurled rocks
at pol ice and beat on cars before being
dispersed by hundreds of riot troops
armed with shields and batons.
Clinton supports Yeltsin
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton Wednesday strongly en
dorsed Russian President Boris
Yeltsin’s handling of the show
down with rebels in the parliament
building in Moscow. “I think so far
they’ve done quite well,” he said.
“I don’t think that any of us
should be here basically armchair
quarterbacking the unfolding
events,” the president said.
“When I talked to Boris Yeltsin
a few days ago, I told him very
strongly that I hoped that he would
be able to manage this transition in
ways that really promoted democ
racy, respected human rights and
kept the peace,” he said. “And he
said that would be exactly his pol
icy. And so far he has done that
under very, very difficult, intense
circumstances.”
Clinton made his remarks in an
exchange with reporters before a
late-aftemoon meeting with Rus
sian Foreign Minister Andrei Vic
tor Kozyrev.
Kozyrev, at the United Nations
before traveling to Washington,
said the showdown in Moscow
would be resolved “without using
force.”
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Clinton defended Yeltsin’s de
cision to station troops around the
parliament building.
Clinton said he did not have all
the facts of what’s happened. “But
nothing has happened so far that
has caused me to question the com
mitment that was made to me by
the president and to his own peo
ple.”
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