Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Boris Yeltsin said 82 hostages were released as the Russian army ended a four-day siege, killing all of the Chechen rebels holed up in Pervomayskaya, but conflicting reports indicated that only about half that many hostages survived the Russian offensive. Yeltsin's government had justified the brutal assault on Wednesday by arguing that all of the hostages were already dead. Unconcerned with the contradiction, a triumphant Yeltsin vowed to take the war to Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev: "Now we will strike a blow at those Dudayev strongholds where there is no civilian population...
TRABZON, TURKEY: Chechen rebels widened their war for independence, hijacking a Turkish ferry loaded with Russians in the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon and taking 30 Russians hostage in their capital, Grozny, even as hostage-takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death. Chechens escalated the conflict as Russian President Boris Yeltsin shook up his cabinet, replacing Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov, one of the last remaining liberals in his administration, with hawk Nikolai Yegorov. The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin...
...between cops and residents works not only in big cities: Taylor, Texas, about 28 miles northeast of Austin, has just 13,300 people. But no place is too small for the drug trade. Five years ago, crack moved in among the cotton gins and railroad tracks, bringing with it assault, rape, car theft and murder. Crime got so bad that Mae Willie Turner, 79, and her sister, Gladys Hubbard, 73, could no longer sit at night on their front porch. "The place was infested," says Turner...
...their commands. Half of all precinct bosses have been replaced under Bratton. Those who survive get unprecedented autonomy but have to demonstrate extraordinary results. Some feel pressured to shave their stats; as the New York Daily News reported last fall, a commander in the Bronx told his troops that assault arrests could be made only when victims suffered broken bones, not fat lips or black eyes. Crimes in the category plummeted in his precinct...
Human Rights Watch released a report accusing China of the systematic abuse of children in orphanages, including "deliberate starvation, torture and sexual assault." Human Rights Watch says it is impossible to know the extent of abuse but claims at least 1,000 orphans died in Shanghai alone from...