MORE DETAILS ON CLINTON’S MOSCOW BREAKFAST.

White House spokesmen told journalists that the Russian opposition leaders who attended the May 11 breakfast with President Clinton in Moscow had been quite frank. Former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar told the president that “negative attitudes toward the US” were widespread in Russia, and Communist party chief Gennady Zyuganov said that Russia faced three possible futures–as a “big Chechnya,” as a mafia-dominated Columbia, or as a reformed society. When some of the opposition leaders said they doubted elections would be held, Clinton reportedly replied that Yeltsin had assured him they would be.

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