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...many officers, particularly in the Defense Ministry and on the General Staff, entertained any illusions that Russia would accept the independence of the defiant Chechen republic. But since large stockpiles of weapons were left behind in 1992 when President Jokhar Dudayev deported the Russian units serving in his region, army leaders and the President's advisers could hardly have believed the Chechen crisis would have a bloodless resolution. Chechen civilians have been dying, not because the military aimed to kill them, but because many soldiers have forgotten -- or never learned -- how to shoot straight, and often their missiles hit civilian...
Having declared victory in Chechnya yesterday, Russian troops continued to bomb Grozny to expel Chechen fighters from their capital. Jets blasted a market and an apartment building near the city center. But the Chechens remained defiant: "We will fight to the end, and when we die, we'll send our 10-and-12-year-olds with Kalashnikovs," said Chechen Defense Minister Aslan Maskhaev...
...camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving, a sniper can't get a good shot at me," he says with a defiant grin. "It would take a cruise missile...
True to form, Yeltsin stepped offstage three weeks ago -- into the Kremlin hospital for repair of a deviated septum -- at the same time that he ordered the Russian armed forces to seize control in Chechnya and disarm the supporters of its defiant president, Jokhar Dudayev. The disappearance of Yeltsin and his failure to explain the decision to use force began a new round of speculation about his health and his competence to handle his job. Though U.S. Vice President Al Gore visited him and reported that he was fine, the rumors continued...
While lawyers argued, a defiant mood, bordering on disobedience, seized many of those who must implement the new law. The Los Angeles city council voted to join legal challenges and, in the meantime, directed its employees to continue providing services. Although 187 appears to exclude illegal immigrant children from foster care, Los Angeles County children and family services director Peter Digre said, "It's unimaginable that the voters meant for us to ignore battered, molested or starving two-year-olds just because they are undocumented." Los Angeles police chief Willie Williams announced there were . no policy changes in his department...