Word: convoying
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...overnight in Kizlyar in return for safe passage back to the Chechen republic, have threatened to start shooting the 160 remaining hostages unless the Russian Interior Ministry allows them to use another route. Although the Interfax news agency reports that Russian helicopters have fired several shots at the bus convoy, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised that no action would be taken that would endanger the hostages' lives: "We aren't going to start frontal attacks, or act according to an eye-for-an-eye principle, since we feel convinced that death only brings death," he said. "But the bandits...
GENEVA WAS BRIMMING WITH HOLIDAY cheer as a small convoy of cars set out for France. The travelers looked more respectable than any ordinary party of vacationers. In their four cars, the 16 French and Swiss nationals included three little girls, two policemen, a Geneva psychotherapist and the son of a famed European former skiing champion...
With a meeting in Moscow postponed by Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake...
Eighteen Russian soldiers were killed and eight more captured by Chechen rebels when their convoy was ambushed as they traveled to give medical aid to fellow Russian troops. The attack was the hottest flare-up in fighting since the two sides agreed to a cease-fire six months ago. After the Russian military vowed to retaliate with ''adequate measures,'' and warned Chechen civilians to evacuate the area where the attack occurred, the eight hostages were released...
Amid such complex strategic considerations, the human need for peace is sometimes lost. Last week, when a U.N. convoy made the first unimpeded run into the Muslim enclave of Gorazde since 1992, those on board encountered a city that in little more than 36 months has been transformed from a 20th century industrial center to a medieval encampment. Dr. Alija Begovic, who runs the hospital, described how doctors have performed amputations with kitchen knives, anesthetized patients with plum brandy and transfused blood from their own veins...