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Along with assault and armed robbery, Leahyfaces charges of discharging a weapon within 500feet of a building, possession of a firearmwithout a permit, larceny of a motor vehicle andwearing body armor while committing a felony...
...Harvard! I'm so busy being busy that I've almost forgotten that my love life (drunken sexual notwithstanding) has begun to resemble Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: depressing, slurred and capable of driving one to smoke and drink...a lot. Where is my knight in shining armor? Maybe he's in the shower...
...State Department also took a sterner tone. Spokeswoman Christine Shelly charged that Moscow had violated two commitments to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: failing to notify its partners of large- scale movements of troops, armor and artillery, as required; and violating the organization's code of conduct, which calls on members to respect civilian populations and work for peaceful solutions to disputes...
...expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket launchers, grenades, even Molotov cocktails. Yet at the end of December he did it. Forgetting the cardinal rule that infantry precedes armor to scour buildings for lurking enemy squads, Russian tanks and personnel carriers advanced straight into the urban canyons of the Chechen capital, and scores were blown away. For a week roving bands of Chechen irregulars have held off 40,000 Russian troops...
...crack special teams were deployed first to seize Chechen President Jokhar - Dudayev or immobilize street commanders. Some Russian infantrymen drove into Grozny in long columns of armored personnel carriers, but instead of charging out to fight off the Chechen guerrillas, they stayed buttoned up inside their vehicles. The Chechens used their antitank grenades to blast the Russian armor from the rear and from above. Sometimes they simply blew treads off the lead and last tanks, immobilizing the column. When frightened young Russians climbed out to flee, they were mowed down with rifle fire or captured...