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For weeks Tudjman's generals had been massing troops around Krajina, threatening to retake the breakaway province unless the Serbs agreed to rejoin Croatia. Then three weeks ago the Bosnian Serbs began attacking Bihac, a pocket bordering Krajina and controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. The Croats helped the...
A consensus on those details came later and after long debate. NATO's generals and ambassadors met over the weekend and into last week in Brussels, winding up with a 13-hour marathon session that ended only at 4 a.m. Wednesday. If the Serbs showed signs of massing for a...
The other option is to turn the full force of Russian firepower and numerical superiority on Chechnya, resume the assault on Grozny and persist in it until the city is conquered, however brutal and bloody. In fact, at week's end Russian shells had set the presidential palace in Grozny...
Nevertheless, Grachev unhesitatingly sent the army into Grozny. It began massing on the republic's borders in early December. On Dec. 21, Grachev told the top-level Russian Security Council that once air strikes had knocked out key targets, the ground forces in the region would be reinforced and then...
The Russian high command is rethinking the operation now. Reinforcements, paratroops and special forces are massing in Chechnya for another offensive. The rebels, in spite of their proven skill at guerrilla warfare, will probably not be able to hold Grozny long against these forces. But, as many in Russia are...