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...Russian 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...
Brown said the graduate student teaching assistants were the victims of a "brutal campaign of intimidation...
...Russian party "is evolving toward national socialism." Otto Latsis, a Moscow political commentator, says Zyuganov heads "the worst part of the old party apparat, the most reactionary fringe." In Washington, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, a Russian expert, says Zyuganov's Communists are "the inheritors of the most brutal system this century has known, except for the Nazis. We have nothing in common with these guys...
More public education is needed about the drug's ruinous effects, which include hallucinations, addiction, depression, paranoia and violent rages. Police report that many of the most brutal crimes are now committed by people using meth. "Maybe the legacy of the three James children can wake up the country to the danger of methamphetamine," says Synicky. "I sure hope...
...darkness. All we really know about her is that her moral courage is matched by her moral acuity. She opens herself up not just to the condemned man but also to the families of his victims, thereby squaring the movie's moral drama. Whatever she may think about the brutal finality of capital punishment, she cannot deny the anguish of these victims, the brutal finalities that a terrible crime has imposed on them...