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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...
...political drag-race is shaping up on the Info Highway. House Speaker Newt Gingrich today unveiled a system called "Thomas" (for Thomas Jefferson), which will provide online denizens easy access to congressional legislation. The system already has full texts of bills from the last Congress; by the end of the month, the Library of Congress will start to upload all new bills. The announcement by Gingrich follows President Clinton and Veep Al Gore's recent unveiling of aWhite House "web site"that provides access to information from many federal agencies. SaysTIME Science writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt"Al Gore and Clinton...
...tenacious resistance. To reach Grozny, it had to fight its way through Ingushetiya, an ethnic republic whose people are Muslim and, like the Chechens, are anti-Russian. Two days after the advance began, the burned-out hulks of at least seven Russian trucks could be seen on the main highway through Ingushetiya into Chechnya; many more, with their tires cut, were being towed away...
...following day, near the village of Sleptsovskaya on the Chechnya- Ingushetiya border, a fiery-red morning sun was melting the light frost on fertile fields and groves lining the highway to Grozny 18 miles away. But Russian soldiers in a column of 50 light tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks could not enjoy the idyllic scene; they had to stop and take shelter behind their vehicles from unseen Chechen snipers. In a lovely grove left of the highway, a Grad missile launcher fired its projectiles toward the Chechen village of Achkoi-Martan four miles ahead; heavy artillery boomed and fires...
When it comes to organization, however, the troops go high-tech. The militia movement, says Berlet, "is probably the first national movement organized and directed on the information highway." Patriot talk shows, such as The Informed Citizen, a half-hour program broadcast on public-access TV in Northern California, spread the word that American values are under attack from within and without. Militias also communicate via the Patriot Network, a system of linked computer bulletin boards, and through postings in news groups on the Internet. One recent posting by a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Militia, more specifically...