Word: chechen
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Fighting intensified in Groznyas a leader of the Chechen military promised a big offensive during President Clinton's summit meeting withRussian President Boris Yeltsinin Moscow next week. Clinton will join inV-E day celebrationsthere on May 9. While the Chechen fighting continues to be a sore point in US-Russian relations,TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays the reaction among Muscovites is decidedly low- key. "People have become indifferent here. Their lives are so difficult now as it is and they're mainly concerned with surviving. They don't have time to worry aboutwhat's going on in Chechnya...
...confrontation, we have given our people a chance to live for the first time without fear of the threat of a nuclear war." Asked about thewar on Chechnya-- which he has unilaterally suspended till the summit's end -- the Russian leader was firm: "You should not forget that the Chechen people also fought during World War II. Almost every family has someone who was killed. So, Victory Day is still a holiday for them, although, perhaps, they are celebrating with tears in their eyes...
Despite taking two important Chechen cities, Argun and Shali, last week, the Russian army faces a long slog in Chechnya. "It won't end so quickly," said the Russian commander, Colonel General Anatoli S. Kulikov. "We calculate that by the summer period, we can establish control of two-thirds of the territory...
...intelligence agencies. White House aides monitoring the Chechnya crisis were able to dial into Intelink for daily CIA updates on the civil war. Advisers confused about conflicting news reports on the fighting referred to another menu item: an animated video, based on satellite photos, that showed how Russian and Chechen soldiers were maneuvering against each other in the capital city of Grozny...
...They charged like a bull at the Chechen fence and got their horns stuck. Now they are going crazy out of their own incompetence...