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...notes, taking the crowd through the cold war, through Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Operation Desert Storm and the occupation of Haiti. Powell, 58, tells moving tales of his upbringing in Harlem and the South Bronx, of sitting in the Hall of St. Catherine in the Kremlin, where he heard Gorbachev declare that the cold war was over. And when Powell has delivered his set speech, the inevitable question rises from the floor: "When are you going to announce that you're running for President...
...raid came at a particularly embarrassing moment for the Kremlin. Only hours before the assault began, Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin had claimed that the government had taken measures to prevent terrorist attacks on Russian territory. With security tightened throughout Russia against more Chechen terror, President Boris Yeltsin immediately vowed to do everything possible to free the hostages, denouncing the attack as "unprecedented in cynicism and cruelty." In reality, the Kremlin had few options. It was certainly not prepared to negotiate an end to the Chechen war under such conditions, making a show of force inevitable...
...events in Budyonnovsk overshadowed good news last week for the Kremlin from the Chechen front. Russian forces seized the strategic villages of Shatoi and Nojai-Yurt, the last two major strongholds of Dudayev's forces. But the surprise Chechen raid on Russian territory signaled that for desperate fighters like Basayev, who has lost his wife and almost all his family in the war, the grudge match with Moscow is far from over. In fact, Budyonnovsk may be the opening skirmish in a new guerrilla war, waged on the streets of towns and cities across Russia...
...memoirs, McNamara reaches the conclusion that many Americans already had more than 25 years ago. The war was not against a Communist monolith directed by the Kremlin but against a nationalist government willing to bleed itself white to defeat an "imperialist" aggressor. McNamara now admits that the U.S. can and should have withdrawn at the earliest possible opportunity...
...Kremlin is beginning to respond to the growing get-tough mood. Two weeks ago, Yeltsin spoke favorably of methods used in Uzbekistan, where he claimed the government grabbed members of six criminal gangs and shot them. He may not be considering measures quite that harsh. But if it is true that Yeltsin is surrounded by officials more hard-line than he is, some of them may be wishing they could take a page from the Uzbek crime-busting book...