ANOTHER IMPEACHMENT -- IN RUSSIA

It's hard to believe that spring isn't even half over and we've already been through an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate this year. Remember? Government continued to function despite claims late last year that the impeachment process would bring the nation's bureaucratic wheels to a grinding halt.

Meanwhile, there is another impeachment pending for another world leader, and the process is getting scant notice, particularly in this impeachment-weary nation. Hard-liners in Russia's Parliament are ready to impeach President Boris Yeltsin. They claim he is responsible for instigating the Soviet collapse in 1991. Remember that?

Most of the free world conferred hero status on Yeltsin for standing up to the Soviet government. Now he is besieged by elected officials in his own country as well as free-world leaders who deplore his anti-NATO stand on Yugoslavia.

Sometimes the world changes and nobody notices.