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Subject: Congress forces compromise on Yeltsin powers
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 9:58:24 PDT
Location: soviet union
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	MOSCOW (UPI) -- Russia's Congress of People's Deputies Saturday
rejected Boris Yeltsin's request to be given until the end of the year
to serve as prime minister as well as president, but accepted a
compromise that maintains his dual role for at least three months.
	After three days of often bitter debate on economic reforms, the
Congress gave final approval to a resolution that recommends some
changes in Yeltsin's program but confirmed his right to direct the
reform without legislative interference.
	Earlier Saturday, members of Yeltsin's Cabinet walked out of the
Grand Kremlin Palace when the Congress failed to approve an amendment
proposed by Yeltsin that would give him until October to present a new
government to the Parliament for approval, with the new government to
take office at the end of the year.
	Instead, the Congress compromised and changed its original one-month
deadline for naming a new prime minister to give Yeltsin at least three
months to nominate and gain approval for a new person in the post.
	Saturday was a mixed day for Yeltsin and his reformist government at
the Congress, the generally conservative supreme legislative body
elected two years ago when the Communists still controlled the country.
	Speaker after speaker criticized the Yeltsin reforms for being
disorganized and hurting Russians in the move from communism to a market
system, and the legislators approved several amendments calling for
adjustments to the economic reforms.
	But the Congress also approved an amendment proposed by Yeltsin in
effect confirming the extra powers given the president last fall to run
the government and reforms directly without normal parliamentary
control.
	The Yeltsin ammendment forbids the Parliament from interfering ``in
the operative and economic activity of the government, instead
concentrating its efforts on the legal foundations for the reform.''
	Later, conservative deputies took another swipe at Yeltsin by passing
an amendment that abolished Yeltsin's system of personal representatives
to local governments in Russia and ordered the elimination of his top
state advisers, officials with no official government post who serve
simply as advisers to the president.
	Galina Starivoitova, one of the top advisers, tried to object in a
statement that was cut off by Parliament Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov. A
few moments later, however, Khasbulatov persuaded deputies to revise the
amendment to drop the clause on state advisers and instead simply
recommend that Yeltsin consider changing the system of local government
representatives.
	Yeltsin and his ministers have argued that extraordinary powers to
run the government and implement economic reforms without direct
parliamentary control are still necessary to keep the country on the
road to a market economy.
	The resolution on the economic reform given final approval Saturday 
``confirms the necessity of persistent implementation of the Russian
Federation to a market economy.''
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