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...nuclear power plant, the ITAR-Tass news agency said today. The missile, launched on Friday from Voronezh, about 350 miles south of Moscow, reportedly landed just 2.7 miles from the Novovoronezhskaya power station and only 660 feet from the apartment buildings, injuring one man. Regional Gov. Alexander Kovalyov complained on national television that he has repeatedly asked for the range to be moved. Last Friday's TIME Daily MONEY
Russian tanks and artillery stepped up theirshelling of the presidential palace in Groznytoday, hours before Moscow offered a cease-fire beginning at midnight EST. Oddly, word of the possible truce first came from Sergei Kovalyov, Russia's human rights commissioner, who quoted Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, a rival of President Boris Yeltsin, as saying: "This is only the beginning of the negotiation process." The Russian announcement was unclear on whether a cease-fire could begin unless the Chechens agree to such severe terms as laying down their arms, retreating from key positions and accepting Russian political control.TIME State Department...
...leading reform lawmaker, called for his resignation. European criticism became unabashed for the first time, as France demanded that Russia explain the increasingly brutal campaign, Germany accused Russia of violating Chechens' human rights and British officials called for an end to the fighting. In Grozny, another Russian reformer, Sergei Kovalyov, emerged from three weeks in the besieged presidential palace to warn, "It's unacceptable for a country to lie constantly. Grozny now will decide the fate of Russia...
...didn't come to the United States as people come to professors," said Valentin A. Kovalyov, deputy chair of the Duma and head of the delegation. "We came for equal discussion...
...convinced that the defense of Soviet dissenters-like my good friends Andrei Tverdokhlebov and Sergei Kovalyov-* is not only a moral duty for honest people around the world but is also a direct defense of human rights in their own nations...