Word: chechenization
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...EIGHT MONTHS, RUSSIAN TROOPS and armor pounded the breakaway Chechen republic into rubble. Then for nearly four months an uneasy peace reigned, after Islamic rebels agreed to a truce on July 30 that few expected to last. Last week the doomsayers looked fairly prophetic, as huge bomb blasts wracked the capital of Grozny and narrowly missed killing Moscow's handpicked political leader...
...further demonstration of the rebel power to use terrorism against Russians, Shamil Basayev, a Chechen military leader, directed a television-news crew in Moscow to a radioactive parcel buried in one of the city's public parks. He told journalists in a 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...
...Chechens have launched more than 1,000 attacks since the peace treaty was signed, and an estimated 60,000 Russian troops have responded with artillery barrages and air raids against villages throughout the republic. The bomb attacks in Grozny came in response to the endorsement by Zavgayev and his tame parliament of a Russian plan for elections Dec. 17 for a new Chechen leader. For the Chechens, the election plan is merely an attempt to give a gloss of democratic legitimacy to Moscow's rule. "No election will be held until the last Russian invader has left," declares a spokesman...
...CHECHEN NUCLEAR TERRORISM
...chilling indication of just how far Chechen rebels may have gone in their fight for independence: in a huge Moscow park, members of a Russian television crew uncovered a cache of radioactive material right where Chechen leader Shamil Basayev reportedly had told them it would be. Russian authorities insisted the parcel posed no harm to the public. But four such packages have been smuggled into Russia, according to Basayev, who claimed that at least two of them also contain dynamite that could be detonated at will. "The war has become like a slow fuse," said Basayev, "but a small event...