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Sat 10 Oct 2009Respect for politicians at a low ebb when most needed
INSIDE POLITICS:Only a spirit of working for a common cause can get us through the current crisis, writes DEAGLÁN DE BREADÚN
FORMER BRITISH prime minister John Major relates an anecdote about sending a message to Boris Yeltsin during a time of great turmoil in Moscow in the early 1990s. He asked the Russian leader to describe, in a word, the situation in his country.
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