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...Wednesday, Pulikovsky jumped the gun and began pounding the Chechen capital with heavy artillery, bombs and rockets, at least 12 hours before his deadline. Thousands of panicked civilians trying to flee were caught in the cross fire. As the bombardment intensified, Lebed sped to Grozny to renew talks with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen military commander, calling the Russian offensive "a bad joke." He quickly "guaranteed" there would be "no storming of Grozny" and he would "see to it" that the Russian generals obeyed...
...soldier see no change in our position and our duty,'' declared the Chechen commander in chief, Colonel Aslan Maskhadov, speaking in Nazran, capital of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. ``Our high command continues to exist. Our volunteers are at their places and are ready to fight on harder than ever. If they think they can insult and enslave the Chechen people, this fighting will go on for years...
...expel Chechen fighters from their capital. Jets blasted a market and an apartment building near the city center. But the Chechens remained defiant: "We will fight to the end, and when we die, we'll send our 10-and-12-year-olds with Kalashnikovs," said Chechen Defense Minister Aslan Maskhaev...
...that celebrate such figures-without really making up their minds whether to do so humorously, romantically or tragically, thus ending in an uninflected middle. They ought to do a little extra time for involving in the mess actors as gifted as Holbrook and Supporting Players Anthony Hopkins and Gregoire Aslan. -Richard Schickel
...Goya's Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London (TIME, Sept. 1). With the help of a dumb broad (Rita Hay worth) and a clever painterfeiter (Joseph Wiseman), Rex artnaps a Velásquez from a castle in Spain. But a sinister grandee (Grégoire Aslan) steals it back, and before long bodies are dropping almost as fast as bum mots ("I want so much to be a first-class crook for you, darling"). Rita, 42 when this picture was made, and Rex, 53, are both old enough to know better...