European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Books Yeltsin warms to russians frigid troubles by Sergey Plekhanov special to the . Times Boris Yeltsin from bolshevik to demo crat by John Morrison . Dutton. My Mother compares him to an icebreaker. A the towers Over them All and keeps going Forward bold steadfast unperturbed breaking All those mountains of she prays for his health. This is typical of russians attitudes toward Boris Yeltsin. In the eyes of a vast majority of the vast country spanning 11 time zones across the eurasian land mass that country now has a Good Leader. They cite his strength a crucial Quality russians have always sought in their leaders particularly a strength used to Advance the Peoples cause a Justice Freedom democracy. They cite his guts to attack the Powers that be and face them Down even when they seem to have him up against the Wall. They cite his brains which have helped him outsmart his powerful enemies and put together something unique in the centuries of russians grim history a a democratic government if we can keep it. And they cite his Good heart which is evident. This is no statin. Last but not least they support him because he happens to be the first head of the russian state who has Ever been chosen by the people in a fair and free election. That is Why it is so hard to explain to the russians Why Boris Yeltsin has received such a bum rap from Western politicians journalists and scholars. The bum rap continues albeit on a smaller scale even after the failed August coup a coup that might Well have succeeded had there been no Yeltsin to organize and Lead the resistance. Since Yeltsin a unexpected comeback to big time soviet politics in 198889 As a Radical critic of Gorbachev a policies he has been pictured in the West As a populist demagogue extremist crude authoritarian More brawn than brain a constant pain in Gorbachev a neck. Morrison who served in Moscow As a Reuters correspondent in the Early 1980s and recently had a Chance to research soviet affairs in a less hurried manner at Harvard has produced both a very info m s i is i i i us Boris Yeltsin celebrates failed coup of 1991. Native and readable biography and an incisive analysis of the tangled and tumultuous events in the soviet Union since 1985. Each of the 21 chapters is titled after one or another famous russian Book of the last two centuries a Gogol a dead souls Tolstoy a War and peace Chekhov a Dacha dwellers. Not readily obvious this Subtle Mark of the authors sophistication about things russian wow he has even read or at least heard of Vera Ranova a fellow travel Erst reflects his works Basic premise the Yeltsin phenomenon and for that matter the Gorbachev phenomenon can Best be understood in the context of russians history and traditions. A like Ronald Reagan a Morrison writes Yeltsin a has an ability to make russians feel Good about themselves and an instinct for the reactions of people in the Street. But unlike Reagan his skill As a communicator owes nothing to television and everything to his own instinct for the feelings of the on oct. 28, Yeltsin unveiled his plan for russians revival. His margin of error is terribly narrow the country is in a big mess Many of its citizens frustrated and fearful of their economic and social prospects. Yeltsin is offering them a vision and practical policy proposals. They Are based on the ideas of democracy free Enterprise social Justice self Reliance. Sergey Plekhanov is Deputy director of the Institute for the study of the United states and Canada in moscow.,King on top with the waste lands by Kathleen Ostrander United press International the waste lands the dark Tower Book Iii by Stephen King plume books. Welcome Back to Roland the last gunslinger and Eddie Dean Susannah and the boy Jack. Roland is the hero in the mighty trilogy an epic of sorts a masterpiece something that will be recognized in modern literature As the Illiad of our time. Roland searches for the dark Tower where he will find either his destruction or his salvation and deep in his mind it nags at him a will his salvation mean destruction the waste lands is a mini drama in itself. Don t think because it is the third you must have read the first and the second. Feel free to join Roland in the third As do the human and not so human who bar or Speed him on his Way. King writes in his authors note that readers May not like where this Book stops a but that is the Way he explains with books that write themselves. Indeed if the Roland books could read to a Reader they would for they Are magical moments of a literary time lost and regained. A description that fits Roland a travels. The Trio finally enters with the help of Blaine the Mono the vast wastelands which signal the end of what is left of the world and the beginning of what May be the end of Roland a quest. While readers ache for the gunslinger to find the end we can to help but wish he wont for there is magic in his journey and Kings prose. King writes at the end the next Book in the journey will come not soon enough. Rabbit at rest by John Updike Fawcet now out on paperback. Updike ends the Saga of his hero Harry a Rabbit Quot Angstrom describing both his decline and that of the american �?T80s. 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