By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMER

KIEV, Ukraine — Abandonedby his own guards and reviledacross the Ukrainian capital butstill determined to recover hisshredded authority, PresidentViktor F. Yanukovych fled Kievon Saturday to denounce what hecalled a violent coup, as his offi-cial residence, his vast, colonnad-ed office complex and other onceimpregnable centers of power fellwithout a fight to throngs of joy-ous citizens stunned by their tri-umph.

While Mr. Yanukovych’s nem-esis, former Prime Minister YuliaV. Tymoshenko, was releasedfrom a penitentiary hospital, Par-liament found the president un-able to fulfill his duties and exer-cised its constitutional powers toset an election for May 25 to se-lect his replacement. But withboth Mr. Yanukovych and hisRussian patrons speaking of a“coup” carried out by “bandits”and “hooligans,” it was far fromclear that the day’s lightning-quick events would be the last actin a struggle that has not justconvulsed Ukraine but expandedinto an East-West confrontationreminiscent of the Cold War.

At the presidential residence ashort distance from the capital,protesters carrying clubs andsome wearing masks were incontrol of the entryways Satur-day morning and watched asthousands of citizens strolledthrough the grounds in wonder.“This commences a new life forUkraine,” said Roman Dakus, aprotester-turned-guard, who waswearing a ski helmet and carry-ing a length of pipe as he blockeda doorway at the compound.“This is only a start,” he added.“We need now to make a newstructure and a new system, afoundation for our future, withrights for everybody, and weneed to investigate who orderedthe violence.”

With the riot police they bat-tled for days having disappeared,the protesters claimed to be incharge of security for the city.There was no sign of looting, ei-ther in the city proper or in thepresidential compound.

A pugnacious Mr. Yanukovychappeared on television Saturdayafternoon, apparently from theeastern city of Kharkiv, near

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President Viktor Yanukovychdenounced a “coup” on TV.

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Former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko spoke at Independence Square in Kiev after being released from a prison hospital.

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Parliament Says President Can’t Perform

Duties — Archrival Leaves Prison

This article is by Kirk Semple,Joseph Goldstein and Jeffrey E.Singer.

A Chinese woman walked intoa law office in New York’s China-town and asked to see her lawyer.She had applied for asylum,claiming that she had been forcedto get an abortion in China tocomply with the country’s family-planning laws, and she was anx-ious about her coming interviewwith immigration officials.

She had good reason to be wor-ried: Her claim, invented by herlawyer’s associates, was false.

But the lawyer, John Wang,told her to relax. The process, hesaid, was straightforward, and aslong as she memorized a few de-tails, everything would be fine.“You are making yourself ner-vous,” he said in Mandarin. “Allyou would be asked is the samefew rubbish questions.”

“Just make it up,” the lawyeradded.

The conversation, in December2010, was secretly recorded byfederal officials conducting awide investigation of immigra-tion fraud in New York’s Chinese

Asylum FraudIn Chinatown:Industry of Lies

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By ELLEN BARRY

BOLLIKUNTA, India — LathaReddy Musukula was making teaon a recent morning when shespotted the money lenders walk-ing down the dirt path toward herhouse. They came in a phalanx of15 men, by her estimate. Sheknew their faces, because theyhad walked down the path before.

After each visit, her husband, afarmer named Veera Reddy, sankdeeper into silence, frozen bysome terror he would not explain.Three times he cut his wrists. Hetied a noose to a tree, relentingwhen the family surrounded him,weeping. In the end he waited un-til Ms. Musukula stepped out,and then he hanged himself froma pipe supporting their roof, leav-ing a careful list of each debt heowed to each money lender. She

learned the full sum then: 400,000rupees, or $6,430.

A current of dread runsthrough this farmland, wherewomen in jewel-colored sarisbend their backs over watery ter-races of rice. In Andhra Pradesh,the southern state where Ms.Musukula lives, the suicide rateamong farmers is nearly threetimes the national average; since1995, the number of suicides byIndia’s farmers has passed290,000, according to the nationalcrime records bureau, though thestatistics do not specify the rea-son for the act.

India’s small farmers, once thecountry’s economic backboneand most reliable vote bank, areincreasingly being left behind.With global competition and ris-ing costs cutting into their lean

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After Farmers Commit Suicide, Debts Fall on Families in India

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An Indian woman whose husband had committed suicide.

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

Dr. Michael Siegel, a hard-charging public health research-er at Boston University, arguesthat e-cigarettes could be the be-ginning of the end of smoking inAmerica. He sees them as a dis-ruptive innovation that couldmake cigarettes obsolete, like thecomputer did to the typewriter.

But his former teacher andmentor, Stanton A. Glantz, a pro-fessor of medicine at the Uni-versity of California, San Francis-co, is convinced that e-cigarettesmay erase the hard-won progressachieved over the last half-centu-ry in reducing smoking. He pre-dicts that the modern gadgetrywill be a glittering gateway to the

deadly, old-fashioned habit forchildren, and that adult smokerswill stay hooked longer now thatthey can get a nicotine fix at theirdesks.

These experts represent thetwo camps now at war over thepublic health implications ofe-cigarettes. The devices, intend-ed to feed nicotine addiction with-out the toxic tar of conventionalcigarettes, have divided a nor-mally sedate public health com-munity that had long been unitedin the fight against smoking and

Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes

As Path to Tobacco, or From It

THE NEW SMOKE

Public Health Effects

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By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDand GINGER THOMPSON

MEXICO CITY — Just before 7a.m. on Saturday, dozens of sol-diers and police officers descend-ed on a condominium tower inMazatlán, Mexico, a beach resortknown as much as a hangout fordrug traffickers as for its seafoodand surf.

The forces were following yetanother tip about the where-abouts of one of the world’s mostwanted drug kingpins, JoaquínGuzmán Loera — known as El

Chapo, which means “Shorty” —who had eluded such raids for 13years since escaping from prison,by many accounts in a laundrycart. With an army of guards andlethally enforced loyalty, hereigned over a worldwide, multi-billion-dollar drug empire thatsupplied much of the cocaine andmarijuana to the United Statesdespite a widespread, yearslongmanhunt by American and Mex-ican forces.

This time, however, Mr. Guz-mán, believed to be in hismid-50s, did not slip out a door,disappear into the famed moun-

tains around his northwest Mex-ico home, or prove to be absent,as he had in so many previous at-tempts to apprehend him. He ap-parently had no time to reach forthe arsenal of guns and grenadeshe had amassed or dash into astorm drain or tunnel, as authori-ties said he recently did minutesahead of pursuers.

Mexican marines and the po-lice, aided by information fromthe United States Drug Enforce-ment Administration, immigra-tion and customs officials and theUnited States Marshals Service,took him into custody without fir-ing a shot, according to Mexicanofficials.

Mexico’s attorney general,Jesús Murillo Karam, said a laterforensic exam made it “100 per-cent” certain the man was Mr.Guzmán; the tests were done toavoid the kind of embarrassmentMexican officials faced in June2012 when they announced thearrest of Mr. Guzmán’s son, onlyto later discover it was not him.

Mr. Guzmán faces a slew ofdrug trafficking and organizedcrime charges in the UnitedStates, which had offered $5 mil-lion for information leading to hisarrest in the hopes of dealing acrippling blow to an organizationthat is the country’s top providerof illicit drugs.

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Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, after he was cap-tured in Mazatlán, Mexico, in the early hours of Saturday.

El Chapo, Most-Wanted Drug Lord, Is Captured

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

KIEV, Ukraine — An eeriecalm and a light mist shroudedPresident Viktor F. Yanukovych’ssprawling residential compoundjust outside the capital on Satur-day morning as street fightersfrom the center of Kiev madetheir way inside, gingerly pass-ing a wrought-iron gate and cau-tioning one another about boobytraps and snipers.

They found none of either butdiscovered instead a world surelyjust as surreal as the charredwasteland of barricades and de-bris on the occupied central plazathat has been their home formonths. It was a vista of bizarreand whimsical attractions on agrand scale, a panorama of wasteand inexplicable taste.

They saw about a half-dozenlarge residences of variousstyles, a private zoo with rarebreeds of goats, a coop for pheas-ants from Asia, a golf course, agarage filled with classic cars anda private restaurant in the formof a pirate ship, with the name“Galleon” on the stern.

One man in the 31st Lviv Hun-

Behind Gates,

Bizarre Vision

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After Hurricane Katrina, experts of-fered a plan to reimagine New Orleans,but residents insisted on a slower, politi-cally palatable, way forward. PAGE 17

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Lessons For Rebuilding Detroit The Security Council unanimouslyadopted a resolution ordering both sidesin Syria’s civil war to stop blocking de-liveries of humanitarian aid. PAGE 8

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U.N. Orders Syrian AidA 2011 law curbing union power has al-ready had significant effects, and someunion supporters worry that it may be-come a pattern in other states. PAGE 1

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