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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 16, 1994                   TAG: 9403160161
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MOSCOW                                LENGTH: Short

NIXON AND ZHIRINOVSKY MEET

Former President Richard Nixon capped a politically charged visit to Moscow on Tuesday by meeting ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who swore the world has nothing to fear from him.

But the unusually conciliatory Zhirinovsky did warn of imminent political unrest in Russia and advised the United States not to get caught backing ``radical democrats.''

``Don't support the losers in the last elections, there's no future in it,'' Zhirinovsky said he had inscribed in a copy of his autobiography that he gave Nixon.

Reformers who support President Boris Yeltsin fared poorly in December's parliamentary elections, while Zhirinovsky's party finished first.

``I don't want to be misunderstood by you,'' said the inscription in his autobiography, ``The Last March South,'' that Zhirinovsky asked Nixon to give President Clinton along with a request for a meeting.

Zhirinovsky told reporters after his meeting with Nixon that his message to Clinton was, ``Don't be afraid of me.''

``There is no reason to be afraid of my party,'' he said. ``We're not a fascist party, we're not an anti-Semitic party, we're against violations of democracy. We are only for freedom. ... We're always for discussion.''

by CNB