Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday February 25 2004 n World I 1 Piodbb ffares Kwissoaoii presidential election by attracting voters who accused Putin of continuing Yeltsin-er- a policies that the tycoons used to amass great wealth Under the Russian government 'system the prime minister is primarMOSCOW (AP— Less than ily responsible for steering economic three weeks before the presidential The dismissal of the prime policy election President Vladimir Putin minister also means the dismissal of fired his prime minister Tuesday in a the rest of the government though the stroke rids that Russian surprise of them could be reappointed leadership of a top holdover from the any In a statement broadcast on state Boris Yeltsin era television Putin said he was reshufThe dismissal of Prime Minister the ahead of the vote to Cabinet fling Mikhail Kasyanov and his Cabinet in the federal “avoid bolstered authoriuncertainty the also apparently said the executive structures’He circle former inner Putin's of of ty Cabinet's performance was KGB agents and set the stage for a makeover of the country’s top leadtory" but he wants a new government to push reforms further ership "The president wanted to show Kasyanov was a strong advocate of that he was rupturing ties with the the business tycoons many Russians old regime” said Igor Bunin the regarded with disdain His ouster is head of the Center for Political Techlikely to widen Putin's already overnologies an independent think-tan- k whelming lead before the March 14 Action rids leadership of top holdover from Boris Yeltsin era ommistteir ©afoiinieti prm® Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Endowment said that firing Kasyanov could allow Putin to “lay blame on the government for everything he hasn’t achieved during his term” Putin named Deputy Prime Minis- ter Viktor Khristenko widely perfor ceived as essentially a the president as interim premier Putin now has two weeks to submit ' his nomination for a new prime minister to the legislature “Within a week of being appointed the chairman of the government will haveto present me with proposals for a new structure of the federal bodies of executive authority” Putin said It was unclear if that statement meant Putin was planning a major overhaul of the way the government is shaped The timeframe also raised the possibility that Pitin would not have a government in place before yes-hi- an the election The White House aware of the relaimportance of the tionship but increasingly concerned about political developments under Putin weighed carefully how to respond Several hours after Putin’s announcement White House press secretary Scott McClellan was still telling reporters he needed more time to look into the matter The Bush administration is worried about independent media in Russia and believes parliament — dominated by Putin supporters — isn’t the strong legislative arm it could be Kasyanov was named finance minister in 1999 and became prime minister after Putin then prime minister was elected president in March 2000 He had clashed with Putin’s proteges who were crowding the Cabinet and the presidential administration US-Russi- an AP photo Russian President Vladimir Putin right greets Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko who was named Tuesday as acting prime minister at the Presidential Security Council in the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday Workmen unearth mummies in Peru Dominican troops ship out to Haiti LIMA Peru (AP) — Construction workers dug up two ' mummies from the ora in a town on Peru’s Pacific coast archaeologists said Tuesday Dozens of other mummies are buried at the site in the ' southern town of Cocachacra archaeoloaccordingto the an gists who want to conduct ' excavation emergency “The mummies woe very although they were damaged because the excavation was not conducted by archaeologists” said state ' archaeologist Marco Lopez “We want to rescue the ' remaining mummies’’ The workers woe laying pipes when they discovered the remains of a man boy arid a two weeks ago One of the man’s eyes was still intact Based on textiles and ceramics buried with them the remains date to the Ghirib-ay- a culture which flourished in the area between 1100 and 1300 Lopez said The mummies are among many discovered in Peru in recent years Two years ago archaeolo- gists found 2200 Inca mummies undo: a Lima r well-preserv- ed SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic (AP) — The government doubled itsmilitary presence at the border with Haiti to 3000 as the neighboring country remained in the grip of a bloody rebel- - lion the country’s top military official said Tuesday Gen Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez said the number of ' troops at the border represents small of a only percentage what the Caribbean country can deploy at the border if there is a refugee crisis AP photo But Soto said he did not i A Moroccan woman and her children carry their belongings on a road 93 miles southwest of the envision such a crisis About' 500 additional Mediterranean city of Al Hoceima in northern Morocco after a powerful earthquake struck the area ' overnight Tuesday toppling houses and killing at least 560 people troops were sent Sunday and Monday to provide more secu225-miborder rity along the total the to 3000 bunging ' said military spokesman Col Juan Julio Tejeda The Dominican Republic cannot handle a mass exodus AL HOCEtMA Morocco Rif Mountains and the Meditercrumbled easily in the of Haitian refugees authorities (AP) — A powerful earth- ranean Sea dial draws European temblor Victims warned on Monday citing the tourists with its sandy beaches were most likely women chilquake devastated an isolated nation’s economic Crisis and The death toll climbed northern dren the because of picturesque region elderly Much of the border between Morocco on Tuesday killing men in the region tend to emi-gra- te steadily throughout the day as the two nations which share the more than 560 people as rescuers began reaching the to the Netherlands and they island of Hispaniola is porous hard-h- it areas and finding Germany in search of work slept injuring hundreds more running through hills and along and laying ruin to villages that ' said Mohammed Ziarie a forcorpses officials said The the shallow Rio Masacre official MAP news agency suffered for decades under mer human rights minister said late Tuesday at least 564 The quake which rattled government neglect Rescuers with pick axes and apartment buildings as far away people were dead and 300 sniffer dogs were searching as southern Spain destroyed injured Of those 80 people ' : were for survivors trapped tinder rural communities near the hospitalized the agency said Officials earlier had put the rubble of their fragile coastal city of A1 Hoceima a ' the injury toll at 600 ' homes which hideaway tucked between the - 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