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By JOHN DAN1SZEWSKI TIMES STAFF WRITER MOSCOW A few weeks ago, she was an unemployed factory worker scraping by with her equally jobless husband and two sons in a three-room apartment in the rump end of the Russian federation. Today, she might well be the wealthiest woman in all of the republic of Bashkortostan. And, unlike many seriously rich "new Russians" nowadays, Na-dezhda Mukhametzyanov can say she came by her money honestly. Mukhametzyanov was presented to the public Wednesday as the winner of the first television lottery prize in Russia to exceed $1 million. To be precise, her jackpot totaled 29,814,000 rubles, the equivalent of about $1,050,000.

Although a million dollars may not mean so much in some parts of the world, it remains a very tidy sum in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, on the western slopes of the Ural Mountains. Under Russian tax law governing gambling winnings, the state will claim 35 of her take. Mukhametzyanov, a small 47-year-old with hennaed hair, was still somewhat in a daze when she faced the cameras in Moscow on Wednesday. "I think that I still have not fathomed the whole thing yet," she said. She said she wasn't watching the popular Russian televised lottery "The Bingo Show" on Dec.

30, the night her winning numbers were called. "I came home one evening, and my husband said all of a sudden, 'Don't get nervous now, but can you figure out in your mind how much is 35 of I said, 'Twenty-nine what, 29 He goes, 'No, 29 I nearly lost the ability to speak. "I still have not quite gotten used to being rich," she confessed, saying she has no idea how she will spend the money but she plans to give at least part of it away. On a dark note, her husband said his happiness has already turned to fear. "As it often happens in life, big joy brings big problems," said Rustem Mukhametzyanov, 42, who stayed at home in Ufa but was reached by telephone Wednesday night.

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7 mmm Miniature 14kt. white or yellow at Gearys Now specially priced I f4 18 36 4S I Reuters a copy of the winning lottery have an ordinary, Soviet-style apartment, the cookie-cutter type that sells for about $10,000, and, like most Russians, have never owned a car. "We will definitely buy one," he said. "I am personally thinking about a foreign make." Neither he nor his wife has a higher education, and both had worked in the same casting shop for the state-owned motor-making enterprise in Ufa, which has fallen on hard times. His wife lost her job in 1997, he said, and he became unemployed eight months ago after 21 years at the plant.

"Life has been hard for us, especially lately," he said. "It is very difficult to raise two children when you are out of a job. So this prize is a tremendous help. With this money, we will be able to lead a decent life, and make sure our kids have a decent life too. "When I realized how much we have won, I could not believe it at first.

I just felt all my body trembling with some unknown mixture of fear and joy I nearly fell dead on the ground." Now, he said, he wants "to just disappear from this city and move to a new place, so people forget about us. is the only way we'll be better off." Alexei V. Kuznetsov of The Times' Moscow Bureau contributed to this report. persistence of international terrorism will end the relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack," the report says.

"A direct attack against American citi-' zens on American soil is likely over the next quarter century. The risk is not only death and destruction but also a demoralization that could, undermine U.S. global leadership. "In the face of this threat," it says, "our nation has no coherent or integrated governmental structures." U.S. armed forces now are organized and trained to have the capability to fight two major overseas wars at the same time, a contingency the commission called "very remote." The report recommended abandoning the two-war strategy to permit the Pentagon to prepare for situations like the recent wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, which it.

characterized as far more likely. The panel said that both the State Department and the Pentagon need substantial bureaucratic remodeling. It said the Defense Department must streamline weapons acquisition procedures, which have become so cumbersome that years are added to production time and costs are increased by staggering amounts. "Many innovative high-tech firms are simply unable or unwilling to work with the Defense Department under the weight of its auditing, contracting, profitability, investment and inspection regulations," the report says. The commission was sharply critical of Congress for obstructing needed national security programs.

Besides Rudman and Hart, the commission included Gingrich former Commerce undersecretary Lionel H. Olmer; former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton former Air Force Secretary Donald Rice; Norman Augustine, chairman of Lockheed Martin executive committee; Anne Armstrong, an official in Republican administrations; Gen. John Galvin, former supreme allied commander for Europe; Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations; former NBC diplomatic correspondent John Dancy; James Schlesinger, a former Democratic Cabinet officer and CIA director; former U.N.

ambassador Andrew Young and retired Adm. Harry Train. New Anti-Terror Cabinet Agency Urged 99.95 pair. Items enlarged to show detail. i i i Nadezhda Mukhametzyanov holds nothing of a million dollars," he said.

"It scares me even to think what they'd do to us for a million dollars." Russian lotteries and bingo parlors became a huge craze shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union 10 years ago but garnered a bad reputation because so many of the games were dishonest and purported winners were never able to track down the organizers to collect their winnings. "The Bingo Show" wanted to show that this time the game was legitimate. All the money that won Mukhametzyanov won "has been transferred to a special bank account, and no one except for her can withdraw this money from this deposit," said Sergei Lavrenyov, a spokesman for the program. He called it "the record largest in the entire history of Russian lotteries." The jackpot had grown so large because there were no winners in the previous 11 drawings. Rustem Mukhametzyanov said he, his wife and their sons, Alexei, 12, and Rustem, 8, have hardly had time to figure out what they will do, but he is pretty sure that they will be moving out of the city.

"We are just ordinary Russians. We do not go to restaurants, we just stay at home most of the time, and our tastes and requirements are not really posh," he said. They on the challenges of the Cold War, the commission's plan is intended to ready the nation for starkly different threats in a new century. The commission was established about three years ago by President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich to deal with what they saw as increasing terrorism threats. Its report was sent to President Bush and to Capitol Hill.

In addition to a wide-ranging governmental reorganization, the commission called for an increased em- phasis on science and mathematics education. It also appealed to Congress to soften its often-bitter confirmation process so capable people will not shy away from service. Rudman said that the commission sought to recommend measures that it considered the "best," rather than the most politically feasible. Sen. Pat Roberts chairman of a Senate subcommittee on emerging threats, seconded the panel's warning.

"This nation is not prepared to defend against or adequately respond to threats to our homeland using weapons of mass destruction," he said. But Roberts, who did not serve on the panel, indicated how difficult it might be to make the recommended changes. "Some will say the report reaches too far, raise their eyebrows and say we can't do that." The panel recommended folding the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs Service, Border Patrol and Coast Guard into the new Homeland Security Agency. It said that the National Guard should be "reorganized, properly trained and adequately equipped" to cope with natural disasters and attacks on U.S. targets by weapons of mass destruction.

As things stand now, Guard units have two very different purposes. On a national level, they constitute the Army's strategic reserve and are supposed to be ready on short notice to fight conventional wars overseas. But between national call-ups, the units function as state militias, with responsibility for disaster relief, riot control and similar tasks. The commission said that the National Guard should be relieved of the responsibility of participating in overseas deployments and concentrate on security at home. "The combination of unconventional weapons proliferation with the GEARYS OF BEVERLY HILLS 351 NO.

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Sens. Warren B. Rudman and Gary Hart (D-Colo.) and including high-ranking military officers and former Cabinet secretaries, warned bluntly that terrorists probably will attack America with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons at some point within the next 25 years. The commission proposed a complete redesign of the National Guard to provide the proposed new "Homeland Security Agency" with U.S.-based troops to combat those who threaten a nation that for more than two centuries was isolated from attack by two oceans. The panel outlined a far-reaching reorganization of the Pentagon, State Department, National Security Council and other agencies, saying that they have become bloated and unfocused.

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