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Faced with a virtual rebellion in Chechen-Ingush, a small, predominantly Muslim autonomous republic of 1.3 million in the south of the Russian Federation, Yeltsin declared a state of emergency and deployed 532 interior- ministry special police. The show of force only rallied support for Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former general who leads the revolt. As armed loyalists surrounded the federation force, Yeltsin's resolve began to crumble, and he agreed to the withdrawal of the stranded troopers. In Moscow the Russian ; parliament delivered its own blow to the president's authority by voting overwhelmingly to veto his emergency decree...