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To: Enigma who wrote (17506)	9/4/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: Alex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116901

LAST SOVIET PRESIDENT SAYS YELTSIN MUST STEP DOWNSeptember 4, 1998ÿMikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet Union president who was eased out of power by current Russian President Boris Yeltsin more than six years ago, was quoted on Friday as saying all Mr. Yeltsin could now do to help Russia was to resign. Gorbachev said to a French newspaper, "There is only one thing which Yeltsin can now do and that is to resign. He is an energetic man but he is not the right man to be president. Yeltsin must himself now hand over power rather than allowing the country to go deeper into crisis." He went on to predict that Russians would take to the streets if Mr Yeltsin did not leave willingly. He also said that replacing Mr. Yeltsin with General Alexander Lebed "would not be the worst of solutions." Alexander Lebed, the popular former paratroop general recently elected Governor of the vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, has long given warnings about possible unrest in the beleaguered Russian military. Now, with Russia in the grip of an economic and political crisis, people are listening.