Word: disarmed
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...weapons. His first ultimatum was a flat failure; as it was about to expire Thursday, the Moscow news agency TASS reported that "not a single gun has been turned in." On Saturday, Moscow issued a harsher threat: missile strikes against strategic targets in Grozny if the Chechens did not disarm. The rebels refused to blink. Said a spokesman: "When the bombing starts, we will first go to our shelters. When it is finished, the command will go out to our forces to defend the city against the Russian attack...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin authorized the use of force against the breakaway republic of Chechnya today, telling his government it should use "all means at the state's disposal" to disarm "illegal" troops in the tiny Caucasus Mountain republic. Already today, Russian warplanes flew over Chechnya's capital, Grozny, and Russian troops massed nearby. The standoff, which has been brewing for weeks but generated little serious international concern, centers on accusations from Moscow that the government of Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev is a criminal regime that rules through gangsters and terrorists. Dudayev unilaterally declared independence in 1991. Yeltsin's decree...
...Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front threatened to march into a French-controlled security zone in southwestern Rwanda and disarm Hutu militiamen -- unless the 2,000-man French force does it first. The threat came as theRPF seemed on the verge of rolling into the zone, the last territory not under its control. The Tutsis reportedly have set upa new government with a moderate Hutu as prime minister, even as the old Hutu cabinet tried to operate out of a half-empty luxury hotel.parpar
...currently unlimited contributions to political parties used for voter registration and party-boosting activities. But Clinton has been nearly silent on the issue this year, possibly because the Democrats face a major loss of congressional seats in the fall elections. In the meantime, Clinton says he won't "disarm unilaterally" while Republicans and other enemies are still out earning money the old- fashioned way. "There's no contradiction at all," said senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. "The President has called for real reform. When the reform has passed, he will live under the rules...
Vanguards of an eventual 9,000-strong Palestinian police force arrived in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. They were boisterously welcomed by Palestinians as the first tangible sign of the transition to self-rule. The armed, uniformed force announced that its first priority will be to disarm thousands of civilians. Meanwhile, the P.L.O. began to set up the governmental structures that will control the two areas...