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From the beginning it was clear that Yeltsin's primary goal was to make certain the invading guerrillas did not get back to their base. That would have left him open to a repetition of the political blow he suffered when a similar gang raided the Russian town of Budyonnovsk last June and then vanished into Chechnya's mountains. Yeltsin has been ill, and his popularity rating is low. The political medicine he needs is an image of strong leadership, so he unleashed furious force on Pervomaiskoye. Last week's operation, says General Boris Gromov, who commanded Soviet forces...
...bold reprise of the bloody raid on a Russian hospital in Budyonnovsk last June, hundreds of Chechen rebels seized a hospital in another Russian town, Kizlyar, taking more than 3,000 hostages and killing dozens more in the process. Demanding the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Chechnya, the rebels then took 165 hostages with them in an attempted escape to Chechnya. En route, however, Russian forces fired upon the rebels, who quickly captured a border village, creating a tense standoff half a mile from Chechnya...
...Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev, the rebels say they will kill the hostages if Russia does not withdraw troops from Chechnya. The action was reminiscent of a similar incident last June, when Chechen fighters held more than 1,000 hostages in a hospital in the Russian city of Budyonnovsk. "The Budyonnovsk tragedy, at least, opened the way for talks with the rebels, aimed at ending the war in Chechnya," says Zarakhovich. "But now that the peace accord is in tatters and a new pro-Moscow leadership has been installed in Grozny, the rebels have nothing to gain from talks with Moscow...
...previously filmed interview, "People these days say we are always bluffing...but remember that we are completely prepared to commit acts of terrorism that will be tangible for Russia.'' Basayev has to be taken seriously: last June he led a Chechen raid on the Russian town of Budyonnovsk that left a score of local policemen dead...
...days after Russian troops captured Shatoi, the last rebel stronghold in Chechnya, scores of Chechen fighters drove into Russia and terrorized the quiet provincial town of Budyonnovsk, killing as many as 100 people and gathering some 2,000 hostages in the town's three-story hospital. The rebels' commander, Shamil Basayev, rejected an offer of safe passage and said that only a Russian pullback from the breakaway republic would save the hostages. Russian troops twice stormed the hospital on Saturday; but after both attempts had failed, the authorities resumed hard bargaining with the rebels...