Gekko

THE network newscasters alternate between panic and complacency over the “race” between Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov, the Communist candidate for the Presidency of Russia. To hear them talk, it’s a neck-and-neck contest, with the poll numbers changing by the week.

No. It’s more like that scene in the first Godfather movie, where Vito Corleone calls the rival gang leaders for a conference in a boardroom. The deals between the Communist and “democratic” factions are being made now. The election results will reflect this—they’ll be the product of advanced Russian mathematics, rather than simplistic arithmetic of the sort taught in American schools.

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THE network newscasters alternate between panic and complacency over the “race” between Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov, the Communist candidate for the Presidency of Russia. To hear them talk, it’s a neck-and-neck contest, with the poll numbers changing by the week.

No. It’s more like that scene in the first Godfather movie, where Vito Corleone calls the rival gang leaders for a conference in a boardroom. The deals between the Communist and “democratic” factions are being made now. The election results will reflect this—they’ll be the product of advanced Russian mathematics, rather than simplistic arithmetic of the sort taught in American schools.