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Show The SaltLakeTribune WORLD Saturday, August3, 1996 YeltsinAsks Huge.Nationto Work on Big Idea for Future THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin thinks Russia needs a new national vision. So, as president, he is asking his compatriots to come up with one. Something, perhaps, to rival the Ameri- can Dream. Something so inspiring it would erase all memories of “Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” Yeltsin has asi; his advisers and the country’s intellectuals to the task, giving them about a year, and the gover Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper this week began soliciting suggestions. It offered a prize of nearly $2,000 for the best “Idea for Russia.” No need for American-style brevity in Israelis Lift Building Ban; @ Yelisin Weary Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who has been convalescing outside Moscow since late June, will need two months to recoverfrom “colossal weariness” caused by thestrenuous presidential campaign, a senior Yeltsin aide said Friday. replaced mainly with advertising exactly lend themselves to the catchy slogan or sound bite. Many are rambling, per- July 3 that Russia lacks a unifying sense of national purpose and asked his advisers for a plan to develop one. sonal meditations on themes such as indi vidual and collective fate. One doctor thinks Russia’s spirit can only be healed by the Russian Orthodox Church An artist says Russians have to take personai responsibility for the country’s future. Russia has always had national slogans, this contest — letters and faxes are allowed to run as long as seven pages. In the land that gave the worla Solzhenitsyn and Tol- stoy, asking for 25 words or less may have @ Starving Miners ; seemed inappropriate. The ideas are rolling in, but they don't from the czars’ “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationhood” to the Soviets’ “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” But since the 1991 Soviet collapse, Rus- Yeltsin said shortly afterhis re-election Healso wants to find a democratic theme to rival the clear ideology of nationalist and Communist hard-iiners But in a country where ideology has of ten been used to punish internal enemies and prop up authoritarian regimes. many people question the need for the contest It can onlylead to the growth of nation alist feelings,” said Dmitry Likhachev, a prominent Russian historian. “Competi tions are not a natural wayto create nation. Five months after they > last got paid, the minersof the Russian Far East agé beginning to starve. BY. Friday, all 10,000 of them had stopped work because they say they are just too weak to handle the tough . conditions underground No coal is being extracted. The region's power plant workers, themselves 5 unpaid for months, alse are refusing to man the stations that supply elee>.* tricity to customers. sia’s old red Communist banners have been every sofa, every table, every loveseat, every lamp, every chair a a ArabsProtest THEASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Jewishsettler leaders dusted off their building plans Friday after the governmentlifted a 4-year-old curb on construction in their disputed communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian leaders and Israeli peace activists said the message was clear: Israel planned to tightenits grip on the West Bank and thwart any land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians, The government — with an eye on planned weekend consultations with Jordan's King Hussein and Secretary of State Warren Christopher — was vague about how much building it would permit. But Infrastructures Minister Ariel Sharon, who presided over massive settlement construction in the early 1990s, was quoted by Israel TV as saying that existing settlements would be expanded and eventually linked together. The Cabinet voted unanimously to lift the building restrictions that had been imposed by Yitzhak Rabin four years ago to pave the way for peace negotiations with the Palestinians. “The previous government placed all kinds of restrictions and shackles onthe naturaldevelopments of the settlements,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- yahu, “Today, we gave ourselves some room to maneuver.” Netanyahu hassaid he expected his government wouldincrease the number of Jewish settlers — now 145,000 — byatleast 50 percent. The Cabinet did not authorize specific building projects and limited the amount of moneyit would spend for construction. Hassan Asfour, a senior Pales- tinian peace negotiator, said Netanyahu was violating peace agreements he had promised to honor. ‘The government is pushing the situation to a confrontation,” Asfour said. “If they continue in ‘living rooms this way, the peace process will face a big danger. 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