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...pictures of bomb-gutted buildings and bloody-faced civilians could have come from Sarajevo. Footage of burned corpses protruding from tank hatches might have been taken along the Highway of Death leading out of Kuwait. But there was something unnervingly different about the war in Chechnya, as a government turned its military might upon its own people and attempted, at terrible cost to its own soldiers, to level their capital city. For all the destruction and death, there was no victory to be had. David was defying Goliath, a Goliath that had held the world in fear for a half...
Despite a plea for peace -- but no offer of surrender -- from Chechnya's president Wednesday, Russian forces launched their harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion...
Kremlin nervousness over the drawn-out Chechnya war is chipping away at newly-won press freedoms in Russia, TIME chief European correspondent James O. Jackson reports. In addition to numerous cases of barring journalists from the battle zone, interfering with interviews and confiscating video equipment, Soviet-style military "censors" have also called up Russian journalists at home to "check their facts," he says. One Russian TV anchorman, Sergei Doryenko, says the anti-press forces "just want us to know that in a month or a year they might be back in power again. And the choice is ours...