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Meanwhile, the WP , having tackled Russia's economics earlier this week, goes next door to inhospitable Belarus, where nostalgia for the Soviet Union and anti-Western sentiment reign supreme.
The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with dire economic assessments from President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, while the Washington Post takes on Russia wannabe Belarus.
The stories dominating the European press Wednesday were: in France, the opening of the manslaughter trial of three prominent French politicians for the state's distribution of HIV-tainted blood; in Germany, the Christian Democrat Party's sweep to power in the state of Hesse using an anti-immigrant election strategy; in Italy, the government's decision to regularize some 250,000 illegal immigrants from outside the European Union; and in Britain, no particular story, though the Daily Telegraph led its front page with the opening of the country's first ever war crimes trial--that of Anthony Sawoniuk, a 77-year-old former Belorussian accused of leading "search and kill" squads to hunt down Jews who had escaped a massacre during the Nazi wartime occupation of Belarus.
In addition, the LAT notes Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's dubious record: he extended his term in a dummy referendum, and has been known to gag the opposition press and imprison dissidents.
Other examples of U.S. leaders' handling new threats included the removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan; the Nunn-Lugar threat reduction program to help contain new nuclear dangers; and international involvement in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.
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