J. Adams
July 18th, 1997
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DOW 8000 & WORLD WAR THREE?
J. Adams
July 18th, 1997
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"In short, the nature of the hallucinations
of Jesus, as they are described in the
orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude
that the founder of the Christian religion was
afflicted with religious paranoia."
- Charles Binet-Sangle
La Folie de Jesus
(The Madness of Jesus), 1910
"...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry
following the use of modern [psychiatric] treatments."
- British psychiatrist William Sargant, 1974
These quotes and others can be found at:
"About Psychiatry desecrates and the Christian Church
from Psychiatry Destroying Religion In the Name of Salvation"
http://www.cchr.org/religion/page47.htm
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Man is currently completely insane and headed toward self-
destruction. He poses a danger to himself and all life on this planet
and should be committed accordingly. Unfortunately, however, there
isn't a mental hospital big enough to house all of human society, so
it looks like our species will have to find a solution on its own,
without outside intervention.
The source of man's insanity is abundantly clear: unbridled,
unrelenting selfishness, arrogance and immorality. One place this is
epitomized in the current day and age is Wall Street, where man's
selfishness and materialism is concentrated.
This week the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached above the 8000
mark for the first time in history and then retreated below the
psychologically important thousand mark with a 130 point drop today.
Reaching the current high-point of collective optimism and confidence
constitutes an unprecedented historical extreme of irrational
expectations. The insanity of man's current expectations is rooted in
the insanity of man's beliefs. In effect, people today are suffering
from an extraordinary popular delusion.
What is the popular delusion? It is an all-encompassing set of
lies that people have come to believe so that they don't have to face
there own wrongfulness and change their lives accordingly. People
have chosen to live according to their selfish wills instead of God's
will. They have been led by the spirit of error instead of the spirit
of truth. Accordingly, the world has been heading toward self-
destruction rather than salvation. Instead of collective optimism for
a New World Order of peace and prosperity as reflected in Dow 8000, a
rational assessment of the available information should lead one to
conclude the world is on the brink of what Jesus, that "paranoid"
founder of the Christian religion, warned about: a prophetic
Apocalyptic war which would result in global mass destruction.
Exemplifying how man persistently repeats the same mistakes over
and over again and fails to learn from his errors, the current
situation is a remarkable historical parallel of 1990- when the last
major international crisis and war erupted. On July 16th and 17th of
1990, with a significant six-planet alignment, the DJIA closed at a
then record peak of 2999.75 two days in a row. Stock prices and
collective expectations then reversed sharply as Iraq massed forces
against and then invaded Kuwait precipitating the Persian Gulf Crisis
and a major upset of Wall Street's confidence. Consequently, stock
prices plunged twenty percent by October of that year.
This time around collective expectations have reached a much
higher and far more insane extreme: Dow 8000. On July 16th and 17th
this week, going into a full moon, six-planet alignment this weekend,
the DJIA reached just above the 8000 mark for the first time in
history.
DJIA - http://www.timely.com/p&djia.htm
Likewise, key thousand marks were also briefly surpassed in the
main British and French stock indexes:
Britian - http://www.timely.com/p&ftse.htm
France - http://www.timely.com/p&pcac.htm
Right after climbing above key thousand marks, stock prices in the
U.S. and around the world have started to reverse sharply. This
likely reflects a critical cyclical turning point between mania and
depression in collective mood. (Note that a mid-summer turning point
almost identical to what happened in 1990 is consistent with the
historical circannual pattern in mass mood cycles.) Accordingly, a
self-destructive international event or series of events is now likely
to develop. If the turning point which appears to have occurred this
week in mass mood is of Grand Supercycle scale, then the outbreak of
war this time around could be of literally Apocalyptic proportions:
peak.htm
content.htm
As can be surmised from the articles below, there are particular
flashpoints around the world that are more likely than others to be
the sites at which war erupts as the Grand Supercycle collapse in
collective expectations gets going. These flashpoints remain the ones
highlighted in the Global War articles I've been writing over the
years: Korea, Bosnia and the Middle East (see
content.htm ). Although I'm not
exactly sure in what order these international flashpoints will be
ignited, I'm pretty confident that their ignition will occur in
association with some sort of right-wing coup in Moscow. The coming
coup and eruption of global war is something that was planned many
years ago...
"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is
inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to
attack. Our time will come in thirty or forty years. To win,
we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will
need to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the
most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall be
electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The
capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to
cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another
chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall
smash them with our clenched fist."
(Dmitrii Z. Manuilskii)
(Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931)
See- nuke.htm
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THE KOREAN DIVERSION
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"Artillery Shells Fly at Korean Border"
Wednesday July 16 6:59 AM EDT
By Moon Ihlwan
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - North Korea on Wednesday fired artillery
shells at a Southern guard post during one of the worst border clashes
in recent years, Seoul military officials said.
The two Koreas accused each other of provocation on the heavily
fortified border, the world's last Cold War flashpoint, and Pyongyang
said several of its soldiers were wounded.
No U.S. forces were involved. A total of 37,000 American troops are
stationed in the South.
Pyongyang radio said North Korean soldiers were carrying out normal
reconnaissance when South Korean troops opened fire.
"From this attack, several solders were injured and several guard
posts were destroyed," it added.
Political analysts in Seoul said the incident was engineered by
Pyongyang mainly to rally domestic support behind North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il at a time of famine and economic collapse.
By raising tensions, North Korea also hoped to persuade Washington to
open further channels of communications to deal with security issues,
the analysts said.
South Korea said the incident began when a group of communist soldiers
crossed the Military Demarcation Line that runs through the middle of
a 2.5 mile-wide Demilitarized Zone. The DMZ bisects the Korean
peninsula under a truce agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
Southern troops fired shots in the air after broadcasting warning
messages on loudspeakers.
North Korean forces responded with 70 to 80 rounds of rifle fire at
two guard posts, which returned a similar burst of fire.
Yeo Sook-dong, the chief spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of
Staff, told reporters North Korean forces then fired 10 artillery
rounds that landed near a guard post on the southern side of the
Demilitarized Zone.
Southern troops responded with one round from a recoilless rifle. The
shooting lasted for about 50 minutes and ended just before noon (11
p.m. Tuesday EDT) after the Southern side broadcast a ceasefire
proposal.
No southern casualties were reported in the incident in a mountainous
area in the central portion of the DMZ.
"It is a rare and very serious provocation by North Korean troops,"
said a South Korean defense ministry official, who declined to be
identified. "The move appears to be intentional."
The shooting occurred just three weeks before the two Koreas, the
United States and China were due to hold talks to pave the way for
peace negotiations.
Senior officials from the four nations are to meet in New York on Aug.
5 to set an agenda and other procedural details for their talks aimed
at thrashing out a peace arrangement to formally end the Korean War.
Political analysts said it was unlikely the shooting would derail the
peace process.
Former U.S. senator Sam Nunn, who once headed the Senate Armed
Services Committee, and James Laney, who just retired as U.S.
ambassador to South Korea, are due to visit Pyongyang on July 20-22,
accompanied by U.S. government experts.
In Washington, a Defense Department spokesman said the department was
monitoring the situation but "at present it seems to be quiet."
Kim Chang-su, fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis in
Seoul, said the shooting underlined the problems facing the North
Korean leadership.
"Threatened by famine and a collapsing economy, Pyongyang needs to
whip up war atmosphere to tighten control," he said.
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"North Korea warns Seoul against 'provocation'"
TOKYO (July 18, 1997 01:45 a.m. EDT) - North Korea warned rival South
Korea on Friday against repeated military provocation near the border,
saying it was ready to respond with a "powerful counterattack."
The North Korean government newspaper "Minju Joson" accused South
Korea of launching an "open armed attack" on Wednesday on North Korean
soldiers and a "deliberate and premeditated military provocation."
"It is our unswerving position and will to answer the sword of the
enemy with sword, a total war with a total war," the North Korean
official daily said in a commentary.
The commentary was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency
(KCNA), which is monitored in Tokyo.
South Korea and the U.S.-led United Nations Command have protested to
the North over the fierce exchange of fire on Wednesday at the
Demilitarized Zone, following the intrusion of North Korean soldiers
into the South. The DMZ bisects the Korean peninsula.
"The incident took place when the South Korean puppets were escalating
anti-North confrontation and new war preparations," the North Korean
newspaper said.
"If the (South Korean President) Kim Young-sam regime starts a war in
defiance of our repeated warnings, our people and army will annihilate
the enemy with a powerful counterattack," it added.
South Korea said Northern forces fired artillery rounds and aimed
rifle and machine gun fire at Southern guard posts as part of a
provocation that began when 14 North Korean soldiers crossed the
border line.
North Korea said several of its soldiers were wounded in what was one
of the most serious clashes in many years along the heavily fortified
Demilitarized Zone.
The shooting occured only three weeks before the two Koreas, the
United States and China were due to hold talks to try to pave the way
for negotiations aimed at thrashing out a peace treaty to replace a
truce that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
Senior officials from the four nations are due to meet in New York on
August 5 to set an agenda and other procedural details for the peace
talks.
The United States accused North Korea of the border clash but said it
would not derail food aid or efforts to bring North Korea into peace
talks.
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"South Korea won't tolerate future provocation"
SEOUL (July 16, 1997 06:27 a.m. EDT) - South Korea on Wednesday
accused the North of escalating border tensions by opening fire at
Southern guard posts and warned it would not tolerate any future
provocations.
"We strongly warn that we will never tolerate any provocation in the
future," Lieutenant-General Joung Young-moo said in a statement.
Joung, in charge of anti-North Korean military operations, said the
incident was a serious violation of the armistice that ended the 1950-
53 Korean War.
He said North and South Korean troops were engaged in fierce fighting
for about 20 minutes on Wednesday morning after the North attacked
Southern guard posts with about 80 rounds of rifle shots and 10
artillery shells.
He said the North had deliberately tried to escalate military
tensions, and noted that the incident followed several intrusions into
Southern waters by North Korean navy vessels in recent months.
Joung said the shooting erupted after seven North Korean soldiers
refused to retreat after being warned repeatedly that they had
intruded into Southern territory.
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"Defector Issues New Warnings of War in N.Korea"
Thursday July 10 4:50 PM EDT
By Andrew Browne
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - A top Pyongyang defector warned Thursday
that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had rejected reform in his
hunger-stricken nation and was plotting a lightning war against the
South as his only escape.
But Hwang Jang-yop, a leading Communist theorist before fleeing to
Beijing in February, conceded he had no proof for an earlier claim
that the North could launch a nuclear attack.
"The North's war preparation is beyond imagination," he told his
second news conference since arriving on April 20 via China and the
Philippines.
But pressed to back up his earlier assertion that North Korea could
"scorch" South Korea, and even Japan, with nuclear arms, Hwang
conceded: "I don't really know."
"It is common knowledge they do have these weapons, but there is no
means to verify that."
Meanwhile, a U.N. agency stepped up efforts to save tens of thousands
of North Korean children from starvation by launching a new appeal for
$46 million in food aid.
The United States, trying to coax the North into peace talks, said it
was seriously considering the appeal.
On Wednesday, the World Food Program appealed for $46 million in food
aid to boost supplies the United Nations is sending to 2.6 million
children aged under six. This was on top of an earlier appeal for $96
million.
U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns told reporters: "We're
going to give this very serious consideration." Other U.S. officials
said a contribution was all but certain.
The United States and South Korea are trying to entice North Korea to
four-way peace talks with China to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War
that was halted by a truce.
Hwang said Kim knew that protracted war would destroy his regime and
was waiting to catch South Korea and its U.S. ally off-guard with a
blitzkreig attack.
Hwang dismissed suggestions of a split in North Korea between hard-
liners and moderates, saying: "It is a country of one-man
dictatorship."
But he hinted at dissent when asked if all North Koreans supported
Kim.
"Why are hundreds of thousands of people dying in off-limit areas?" he
replied, in an apparent reference to internal exile, or concentration
camps.
Western intelligence officials had cast doubt on whether Hwang, the
author of Pyongyang's guiding "juche" ideology, was in a position to
reveal North Korea's nuclear secrets.
He has spent the past several months being debriefed by South Korea
and U.S. spy operatives.
Hwang predicted Kim would formally take over as general secretary of
the the all-powerful Workers' Party after the hot summer, when
celebrations could be more easily arranged, and become president this
year or next.
North Korea Tuesday declared an end to a three-year mourning period
for Kim's father, "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung, paving the way for the
younger Kim to assume top posts. A senior intelligence official said
Thursday a hunt is under way for North Korean spies in the South after
Hwang told Seoul investigators that an extensive network of moles
regularly sent intelligence reports to Kim Jong-il.
"Although Mr. Hwang Jang-yop had not worked in anti-South intelligence
units, he had gathered informaton about their operations while serving
as a high-ranking official in the North," Eom Ikk-joon, a vice
director of Seoul's Agency for National Security Planning told
reporters.
Hwang had offered names of South Koreans and others he met in
Pyongyang and elsewhere before seeking defection, Eom added. But he
denied local news reports that Hwang had said more than 50,000 spies
operated in the South.
Hwang told reporters Thursday the moles not only passed on secrets but
tried to foment social turmoil in the South.
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THE BALKAN TRAP
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"U.S. hints at more arrests while Serbs protest NATO raid"
By DAN DE LUCE, Reuters
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (July 17, 1997 7:27 p.m. EDT) - Last
week's NATO swoop on indicted war criminals drew a fresh protest
Thursday from Bosnian Serb leaders as the United States vowed to stick
to a hard line on bringing fugitives to justice.
Serb leaders boycotted a meeting of Bosnia's inter-ethnic central
government in Sarajevo Thursday, saying they no long trust NATO to
provide for the safety of their aides.
The incident was the latest protest from the hard-line nationalist
Serb leaders, who accuse NATO of overstepping its peacekeeping mandate
by pouncing on two Serbs wanted for war crimes last week, shooting
dead one and arresting the other.
The boycott accompanied a wave of low-level violence targeting
international monitors and NATO troops in apparent retaliation for the
arrest operation. None of the incidents caused injuries.
The United States envoy to Bosnia, Robert Gelbard, made clear that
Washington would not back down from the more aggressive stance toward
suspects wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands.
"If local authorities refuse to abide by their obligation to arrest
indicted war criminals, we will continue to look for other ways to
secure their capture," Gelbard said in written testimony for the U.S.
Senate.
Boro Bosic, the Serb co-prime minister, said the raid conducted by the
NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) had "seriously undermined" the
work of the post-war central government.
"Extreme insecurity is the last thing we expected from SFOR which is
supposed to make us feel safe," Bosic was quoted as saying by Serb
media. He said he feared for the safety of his staff in Sarajevo
because NATO had acted on sealed, or secret, indictments last
Thursday.
SFOR was "continuing a manhunt against innocent men which is based on
alleged sealed lists," Bosic said.
Western peace mediators dismissed the boycott as "political game-
playing" and said the safety of Serb representatives was guaranteed by
NATO troops deployed in Sarajevo, which lies inside Muslim-Croat
federation territory.
Three hand grenades were lobbed at a car park in a British base in the
Serb-controlled town of Banja Luka Wednesday night, the fourth
explosion in four days in apparent retaliation for the arrest
operation.
British soldiers fired warning shots and detained four suspects who
were later turned over to local police. NATO offered no details about
who was behind the attack.
Previous small-scale explosives detonated near the offices of
international monitors in Serb territory.
SFOR officers said privately no serious threat was posed by the
explosions which caused no casualties. They said the incidents were a
long way from the violence associated with terror campaigns in the
Middle East or Northern Ireland.
SFOR has received anonymous threats since the British special forces
operation against the two Serb suspects last Thursday in Prijedor,
near Banja Luka.
Both suspects were charged by the tribunal for leading a brutal
"ethnic cleansing" campaign against Muslims and Croats in the Prijedor
region.
Although NATO said there was no orchestrated retaliation campaign,
Balkan analysts said Serb nationalists were trying to test the
political determination of Western powers just as they did during the
1992-95 Bosnian war.
The Serbs, playing on Western reluctance to risk casualties, were
hoping to force the West to back off plans to go after indicted war
criminals, such as former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic.
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"NATO says it's prepared for retaliation threat in Bosnia"
By DAN DE LUCE, Reuter
SARAJEVO (July 16, 1997 5:57 p.m. EDT) - NATO, reacting to a series of
threats, small-scale bombings and the slashing of a U.S. soldier with
a sickle, said on Wednesday it was prepared to respond to possible
Bosnian Serb retaliation for a raid last week on indicted war
criminals.
A spokesman for the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) said there was
no sign of an orchestrated revenge campaign but he added that SFOR
troops were monitoring the situation closely.
"Suffice it to say, while there are certain threats to SFOR, our
forces are well-trained, well-equipped and have robust rules of
engagement to deal with any situation which may arise," Major John
Blakeley said.
An American soldier suffered minor injuries when he was attacked
before dawn in Serb-controlled territory by a man wielding a hand-
sickle, the NATO-led peace force said.
The soldier was cut in the left shoulder outside his living quarters
and the assailant escaped before he was identified. After being
treated for a two to three-inch gash, the American returned to his
unit in northeastern Bosnia later in the day.
The attack was still under investigation but the incident underlined
security concerns after three bombings in three days targeted unarmed
international monitors in apparent retaliation for a tougher NATO
policy towards indicted war criminals.
The latest explosion occurred early on Wednesday, when a hand grenade
went off outside the offices and apartment of a United Nations police
monitor in Prijedor, where British soldiers pounced on suspected war
criminals last week.
The blasts have caused no injuries but have raised tensions between
NATO and Bosnian Serb nationalist authorities who are outraged over
the raid on two Serbs wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The
Hague.
British special forces arrested one suspect last Thursday and shot
dead another who resisted and opened fire. Both men were charged in
sealed indictments for leading "ethnic cleansing" against Moslems and
Croats early in the Bosnian war in the Prijedor region.
NATO officers said the sickle attack was not necessarily connected to
the explosions.
The 31,000-strong Stabilization Force (SFOR) also said it received a
threatening letter alleged to have been written by demobilized Serb
officers.
The letter, which invoked the extremist Serb "Black Hand" organization
from the World War One era, said SFOR would be treated as occupying
power and it carried a threat to send home British soldiers in "steel
coffins."
"We received a piece of paper and it's entitled a 'proclamation'
addressed to the Serb nation which appears to be a threat against SFOR
troops," Blakeley said.
Serb leaders have condemned the NATO action as unjust but have
refrained from inciting violence in public statements. They have also
protested the use of sealed, or secret, indictments in the swoop and
alleged that NATO possessed a "secret list" of suspects.
The introduction of sealed indictments has set off a wave of
speculation in the media across former Yugoslavia about who may be
arrested next.
Nationalist Serb leaders fear the arrest operation by the British may
have been a test run for a swoop on former Bosnian Serb president
Radovan Karadzic and his army commander, General Ratko Mladic.
The Croatian weekly Globus alleged that Bosnian Croat warlords were
among those named in sealed indictments. Globus also reported that the
tribunal was preparing the first indictments against Croats from
Croatia who fought minority Serbs in 1991.
Tribunal officials declined to comment on the article.
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ARMAGEDDON
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"Israel threatened to reoccupy Hebron, PLO says"
By WAFA AMR, Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (July 15, 1997 10:45 a.m. EDT) - PLO officials
said on Tuesday Israeli threats to reoccupy Hebron prompted
Palestinian police to intervene to restore calm in the divided West
Bank city.
Israeli officials said they relayed messages to the Palestinian
Authority promising "tough measures" if the unrest continued but
refrained from commenting on the Palestinian allegation.
"There were contacts between Israeli and PLO senior security officials
on Sunday night," said a PLO official who refused to be named.
"The Israelis informed the Palestinian side they would reoccupy Hebron
if Palestinian police did not intervene to restore calm in the city
the next day," he told Reuters.
Around 200 PLO policemen intervened on Monday for the first time in
three weeks to quell Arab unrest in volatile Hebron, working in tandem
with Israeli soldiers.
Israel handed over 80 percent of the town -- home to 100,000
Palestinians and 400 Jewish settlers -- to the PLO last January. The
rest, including settler enclaves, remains under Israeli security
control.
Hebron has been the scene of almost daily clashes in recent weeks
between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians. The latest wave of violence
erupted when a right-wing Jewish woman pasted a poster on Arab store-
fronts depicting Islam's prophet Mohammad as a pig.
Clashes concentrated along an invisible dividing line. PLO police had
refrained from intervening as youths hurled stones and petrol bombs at
soldiers who responded by shooting live and rubber bullets.
The official said contacts between the sides continued until early on
Monday and calm was restored after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat
ordered his police to halt the riots.
Israel's Defence Minister confirmed senior officials held late night
contacts with the Palestinian Authority and vowed to take "tough
measures in order to restore order if the security situation in Hebron
continued."
Israeli government spokesman Moshe Fogel said Palestinians were told:
"If you don't control events we will. We will take all the necessary
measures to protect Israelis and restore calm."
He denied the remarks constituted Israeli threats.
Western diplomats said it was the second time Israel threatened to
reoccupy Palestinian cities to pressure Arafat to quell unrest. The
first time was last September when violent clashes erupted after
Israel opened a tourist tunnel near Islam's third holiest shrine in
East Jerusalem.
Palestinian lawmakers warned in a statement against "an explosion" if
Israeli troops re-entered Palestinian cities and called on the
Palestinian Authority to prepare to confront such a measure.
"We warn against explosions and the collapse of the entire peace
process if Israel attacks or enters Palestinian Authority areas and we
call on the Authority to make the necessary preparations to confront
any Israeli moves targetting these areas," said a Palestinian
Legislative Council statement.
PLO-Israeli peacemaking has been deadlocked since March when Israel
launched construction on a new settlement in Arab East Jerusalem.
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THE COMING RUSSIAN COUP
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"Former defense minister criticizes Russia's military reform"
Associated Press, 07/18/97 11:14
MOSCOW (AP) - President Boris Yeltsin's military reforms have left the
armed forces leaderless and threatened with collapse, the former
defense minister warned in an interview published today.
Yeltsin ordered a massive restructuring of Russia's armed forces this
week, including cutting 500,000 of its 1.7 million personnel.
But the fired defense minister, Igor Rodionov, warned the reforms mean
the army was ``not being reduced. It is collapsing.''
``I cannot understand why our leadership takes military reform so
irresponsibly,'' he said in an interview with the Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Rodionov - who was ousted in May over criticism he was not moving
quickly enough to reform the troubled military - said the government's
failure to pay soldiers was making them restless.
``The lack of pay is pushing the armed forces to a situation where
processes could get out of control,'' Rodionov said. ``It's necessary
to fix the wage system in order to relieve the pressure.''
Rodionov is among a group of pro-military officials and lawmakers who
have criticized Yeltsin's reforms. The group's leader, Lev Rokhlin,
told the Interfax news agency today the massive troop cuts were poorly
planned and did not provide adequate social guarantees for the
dismissed servicemen.
Meanwhile, former security chief and Yeltsin rival Alexander Lebed
warned Yeltsin's plan could leave large amounts of military equipment
and property untended.
``Will it be embezzled as has been the case many times before?'' Lebed
asked in a statement sent to Interfax.
In addition to the troop reductions, Yeltsin ordered the Strategic
Missile Forces and Military Space Forces merged into a consolidated
missile force.
He also abolished the Ground Troops command, handing its functions to
territorial military districts, and placed air defense troops under
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