EMOTIONAL APPEAL BY YELTSIN PLAYS ON VOTERS' CONCERNS.Byline: Michael R. Gordon Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for The New York Times [1]. Together with Judith Miller, he wrote most of that paper's coverage of the Bush administration's case for war with Iraq in 2002. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Saying Friday that he felt the ``pain'' of the Russian people, President Boris N. Yeltsin made a strong but emotional appeal for the voters' support. ``I feel all your pain, all the country's pain,'' Yeltsin said, echoing a Clintonism, in the 127-page account of his political platform he made public today. ``However, I am sure it is the pain of a recovering organism.'' Striking the popular stance of a tough leader in touch with the masses, Yeltsin also acknowledged that he had made his share of errors in the area of economic policy. But he asserted that he was already moving to correct them. Yeltsin's campaign platform was made public just days after Gennadi A. Zyuganov, Yeltsin's Communist rival, released his economic program. And the Russian president's program differed notably in terms of style and substance. Unlike the economic manifesto of Zyuganov, made public after open policy disagreements among party members and weeks of piecemeal and sometimes confusing accounts by key aides, Yeltsin's program was carefully orchestrated or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. in its drafting and publication. The release of Yeltsin's manifesto, titled ``Russia: Individual Family Society State,'' was timed to give Yeltsin a boost during his campaign trip to Perm, a heavily industrialized in·dus·tri·al·ize v. in·dus·tri·al·ized, in·dus·tri·al·iz·ing, in·dus·tri·al·iz·es v.tr. 1. To develop industry in (a country or society, for example). 2. city in the Ural Mountains Ural Mountains Mountain range, Russia and Kazakhstan. Generally held to constitute the boundary between Europe and Asia, the range extends north-south for some 1,550 mi (2,500 km) from just south of the Kara Sea to the Ural River; a southward spur extends into northwestern . There were other signs that Yeltsin's campaign apparatus was outdoing the competition. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Central Election Commission, Yeltsin's campaign team has already received 14.3 billion rubles, which is almost the limit of financial contributions permitted by law. Zyuganov has received just 3.2 billion rubles, the Commission told the Interfax news agency. In basic philosophy, Yeltsin's program of economic and political reforms contrasts sharply with the Communist program, which emphasizes protectionist tariffs and state subsidies to ailing industries and a heavy state hand in the economy. Sounding the virtues of a free-market economy free-market economy n → economía de libre mercado free-market economy n → économie f de marché free-market economy n , Yeltsin called for continued control over the money supply to drive down inflation, as well as the development of a stock market and small businesses. He forecast that by the year 2000 the economy would stop its decline and would be growing at a rate of 4 percent. Instead of an inflation rate of 2 percent per month, Russia would have an inflation rate of 5 percent a year, and according to the plan, Russia's budget deficit would be eliminated. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin talks with voters about their pensions in a collective farm east of Moscow on Thursday. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. |
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