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Saying "It is necessary to use force to liquidate the bandits," Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev advocated storming the hospital where Chechen rebels hold over 1,000 hostages. A defiant Shamil Basayev, the leader of the rebel group, defied Grachev, saying: "Let them come and storm the place." Negotiations in the three-day old crisis have hit a standstill as the 200 rebels holed up inside the building rejected an offer of safe passage to Chechnya or any country willing to accept them. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is on his way to attempt a peaceful resolution, but his chances appear...
...Security has been tightened as far away as Moscow, several hundred miles to the north. "The government is deathly afraid of this," Zarakhovich reports. "They fear that this is only the beginning of what could be a long and bloody series of guerrilla attacks. They've really put the Chechens' backs to the wall, and now they have nothing left to lose." At least 42 have been killed and dozens more wounded in two days of fighting. Some 200 Chechens are holding about 1,000 residents of the town hostage. Chechen General Jokhar Dudayev denies any connection to the rebels...
...battles raged through the streets of the southern Russian cityof Budyonnovsk, 120 miles north of Chechnya, as an armed convoy of nearly 100 heavily armed gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels invaded the town. As the rebels stormed the police station, city hall and government offices, 15 people were killed and 21 others were wounded. The gunmen seized as many as 300 hostages, most of them civilians, and threatened to kill them if Russia did not immediatelycease military operations in Chechnya. As night fell, Russian officials say the attackers herded their captives into buses and began to retreat towards Chechnya...
Farkhad Kerimov, a freelance television cameraman covering the war in Chechnya for the Associated Press, has been confirmed dead near Grozny. Shot to death a week ago by unidentified assailants, 27 miles south of the Chechen capital, Kerimov was quickly buried by local residents. His remains were identified today by his brother. Kerimov, a native of Azerbaijan, had covered the Chechen conflict for AP since last December...
Before he boarded Air Force One, Clinton said he was "very deeply disturbed" over reports thatRussian soldiershad slaughtered more than 100 women, children and elderly civilians in a Chechen village last month. The Russian Parliament is now investigating the events of Apr. 7-10, when soldiers reportedly stormed into Samashki, 20 miles west of Grozny, torching buildings, tossing grenades into the basements where frightened residents were hiding, and shooting unarmed residents at random. "TheRussian army was thrown into this combatfor which they were not prepared," says TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan. "The soldiers are angry and frustrated...