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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 1 998 STATESMAN JOURNAL 7A Russian panel endorses grand Romanov burial Coll OVERHEAD DOOR 393-1234 1 "The completion of history" awaits approval from President Yeltsin. Los Angeles Times MOSCOW The bones of Russia's last czar and the family and servants who died with him should be buried with imperial grandeur in their native St. Petersburg on July 17 80 years to the day after their execution, a special state panel ruled Friday. The recommendation to Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin had been more than six tortured years in the making and awaits the head of state's endorsement before invitations will go out to the kings and queens of Europe for a long-awaited proper funeral for the last of the Romanovs.

But the commission's declaration that the bones unearthed in 1991 are beyond any doubt those of Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, three of their daughters and four servants sent the first convincing signal that the battle about their burial is over. If Yeltsin responds quickly, as he has promised, this summer will bring a soul-cleansing ritual unrivaled in this country in the 20th century when Russians symbolically bury, not just the Romanovs, but the sins of their Communist past. Edvard S. Radzinsky, a playwright, biographer and member of the commission whose task was to identify the bones and plan for their interment, likened the decision to raising the lost city of Atlantis; it will restore St. Petersburg, called Leningrad in the Soviet era, to its pre-Revolutionary glory.

"This is the completion of history, because at the end of the century they have returned," Radzinsky, appearing on televi sion, said of the Romanovs. The czarist family and its loyal retinue were taken captive and moved to house arrest in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in the tumultuous aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. In the early morning hours of July 17, 1918, they were shot by a squad. The bodies were hidden and details of the murders covered up for decades, until the social reforms of the late 1980s allowed two amateur sleuths to come forward and disclose that they had located the Romanovs' remains near Yekaterinburg in 1979. Your friendly, local community bank since 1955 rum SALEM: Home Office East West South DALLAS KEIZER MARIAN ESTATES MONMOUTH SILVERTON 399-2900 FDK IlliMlU- M.L STOKES SKI M-IOPM OB V.

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current 19.99-34,99, SALE 8.50-15.30. Yeltsin declines run for 3rd term, seeks successor MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin declared Friday that he is not planning to run for re-election in 2000 and is thinking about a successor but the Russian president still managed to leave room to change his mind about a third term. Yeltsin, who turns 67 on Sunday, would face two big question marks if he runs again his uncertain health and a Russian constitution that limits a president to two terms. "I won't violate the constitution," Yeltsin was quoted as say-mg by the ITAR-Tass news agency. "My opinion about a possible successor has been formed already.

Now I have one problem facing me when to say it." Top aides have said Yeltsin probably could run again if he chose because he first took office in 1991, two years before the post-Soviet Russian constitution was adopted, and thus is serving his first full term under that document. ADVISERS: NETANYAHU CAPS PULLOUT AT 9 JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to withdraw from more than 9 percent of the West Bank before a permanent peace settlement is reached with the Palestinians, a key Cabinet minister said Friday. The Haaretz newspaper reported that Netanyahu had agreed to withdraw from up to 12 percent of the West Bank. A top Netanyahu adviser, David Bar-Illan, denied that report. And Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon, interviewed on TV, said Netanyahu told him he would not agree to a withdrawal of more than 9 percent.

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