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Times Fri, Sep 09, 2005 - Page 7　News List  Yushchenko sacks
government amid corruption scandal   Ukrainian President Viktor
Yushchenko yesterday dismissed his government amid allegations
of corruption against some of his closet aides.  Yushchenko said
the Cabinet and top aides lacked a spirit of cooperation.  The
break-up of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's fragile coalition
of former opposition leaders was an attempt to resolve the
greatest crisis to face Yushchenko in his seven months in power.
"I knew that there were definite contradictions between those
people ... I hoped that there would not be enough time for
intrigues," Yushchenko said. "Those were my hopes."  Ukrainian
television later began broadcasting Yushchenko's prepared
statement.  Yushchenko appointed lawmaker Yuriy Yekhanurov, a
former economics minister who now heads a parliamentary
committee on industrial issues, as acting prime minister.
Yushchenko also accepted the resignat