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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14546)	9/18/1999 10:02:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I don't think Gen. A. Lebed will compromise himself in playing the 'Deputy Sheriff of Mother Russia'. The last thing Lebed is looking for is, somehow, to find himself sullied by the current Russian executive --Lebed wants the Top Job, period. It would be pure folly of him to mess around in Yeltsin's terminal-staged leadership. It's pretty much like Zaire in 1997: who would have expected to see rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila appointed PM by an agonizing Mobutu Sese Seko?? All in all, the PM job is the worst outcome for Lebed --especially if it's granted by an unpopular Yeltsin. Besides, Lebed doesn't need credentials: nobody challenges his statesmanship (except his all-time foe, Yuri Luzhkov); however, he still needs legitimacy, that is ballot-box legitimacy and remember what he's kept saying these last few days: "I'm ready if the country needs me." Such an altruistic behavior! A couple more bombings and the country might indeed need him.....<VBG>