COMMUNISTS HAVE SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT.

Even though the Communists last week did just what they had said they would do if elected, their handling of the event has left them with egg all over their faces. The situation is of their own making, but there is no doubt that Yeltsin will make the most of their discomfiture. Communist leaders do not appear to have anticipated the furor the vote would provoke, not only in the countries on Russia’s borders and in the West, but also inside Russia, and they stage-managed the entire affair in the clumsiest possible manner. Yesterday, nationalist leader Sergei Baburin even