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Thursday, October 29, 1992
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Yeltsin attacks opposition
President bans right-wing group security force
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin went on the offensive yesterday against his hard-line political foes, banning a new right-wing group and ordering an opposition-controlled security force disbanded.
The one-two punch seemed designed to keep the hard-liners off Russia's political center stage, which Yeltsin is trying to hold as the economy slides further into crisis and his reforms more into doubt.
Yeltis took the step after hard-line lawmakers rebuffed his request to delay the next parliament session and after weeks of criticism from many sides, including Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet president who is still unpopular at home, but whose words carry weight abroad.
The ban hit the members of the par-
liamment — the base of Yeltsin's opposition — who are determined to curb his powers and slow economic reforms during a session of the Congress of People's Deputies set to start Dec. 1.
Russian and former Soviet lawmakers, including Sergei Baburin and retired Gen. Albert Makashov, led about 3,000 people on Saturday in creating a "National Salvation Front" to oust Yeltsev and restore the union.
The grouping of Russian nationalists and Communists accused Yeltsin of destroying the national economy and polluting Russia's moral and social traditions.
The group, while appearing well-organized, was comprised mostly of right-wing critics still thought to have limited influence. It did not include any members of Civic Union, an influential centrist bloc courted by Yeltsin.
The president said the group posed a "great danger" for Russia and made good on the threat yesterday, signing a decree ordering authorities to prevent all activities by the "anti-constitutional" group or any other "extremist" organizations, said representative Vvachelaslav Kostkov.
Alexander Prokhanov, one of the Front's leaders, had dismissed Yeltsin's warning on Tuesday as "political gangsterism, lunacy and idiocy."
But the force's commander, Security Department chief Ivan Boiko, rejected Yeltsin's order and said he only would recognize commands from Khasbulatov or the legislative leadership, the Interfax news agency reported.
Yeltsin also chose yesterday to order the disbanding of the special 5,000-member police force controlled by legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulat, a powerful opponent of Yeltsin's government.
Khasbulatov formed the force to protect the Russian legislature's building after the failed coup. But its jurisdiction has since spread to 75 other facilities, including the Central Bank and the Foreign Ministry.
Rebels seize factory in Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia — Rebel leader Charles Taylor's fighters reportedly captured an iron factory within three miles of Monrovia's center yesterday, and the fighting delayed plans to rescue hundreds of war orphans.
The Associated Press
Soldiers of a seven-nation West African force defending the capital were wounded in the assault
There also were reports that five U.S. nuns could be in danger in a suburb north of the capital.
The rebels have infiltrated this close to the city center before, but it was the first time they had captured a building.
The factory sits on the edge of swamp the rebels use for cover, and it could be used as a site for launching rockets and mortars at the capital.
The West African troops were not using their heavy guns to fire on the factory yesterday, perhaps because of the
Based on past battles, it was not clear whether Taylor could continue to hold the factory against counterattacks.
Taylor's strategy appears to be to take control of Monaco by employing its sites, scaring and confusing residents and creating the
rebels are winning. Taylor hopes that a war of attrition will force the West Africans to give up.
Liberia's civil war began when Taylor invaded from Ivory Coast in December 1989. About 60,000 people have died in what grew into a tribal war, 40,000 of them by starvation during a siege of Monrovia in 1990.
President Samuel Doe was killed, and seven West African nations dispatched a force to restore peace. The peacekeepers halted the siege, but peace plans have fallen through.
Relief workers were forced to postpone plans to rescue 301 war orphans cut off by the fighting for more than a week. They were about a mile from the iron factory in an orphanage in the Monrovia suburb Chocolate City, so named because the soil there is chocolate brown.
There was also concern for five U.S. nuns of the Precious Blood order whose convent is northeast of downtown Monrovia.
Archbishop Michael Francis and other Roman Catholic Church sources said they had reports that two of the nuns were kidnapped by Taylor's rebels on Oct. 21 when they left the convent to help a wounded civilian. No one has been able to reach the convent to find out about the other three nuns, the archbishop confirmed.
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