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...population of Wyoming Valley sought to secede from Pennsylvania and form its own state. The executive council answered that challenge with orders to a unit of the state's militia to arrest their leader. We found ourselves in a similar situation under different circumstances in different times. [Chechen rebel leader Jokhar] Dudayev had launched an armed rebellion with the goal of destroying the integrity of the Russian Federation. Hence coercion by the state was used...
Yeltsin: 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. If certain bandits choose to break our agreement, we'll manage to deal with them. The current situation is much better. It has calmed down, and we are witnessing a renewal in the area. Buildings and communication lines are being restored, trade is resuming, and administrative bodies are functioning. We have a Chechen government, assisted by the federal...
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...