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...hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation. First put out the fire, he advised, then decide how to rebuild the house. His plea seemed more a public relations effort to put the onus for the continued bloodshed on Russia than a serious offer of negotiations...
...young mother admitted in November that she had pushed her car into a lake with the toddlers strapped inside. In court today, Smith sobbed as the murder charges were read aloud, then returned to the defense table as her lawyer said she was not yet ready to enter a plea. (Judge Costa Pleiconas, who set the trial date for April 24, entered an innocent plea on her behalf.) If Smith is found guilty, prosecutor Tommy Pope said, he'll ask to have her executed in the electric chair...
Despite a plea for peace -- but no offer of surrender -- from Chechnya's president Wednesday, Russian forces launched their harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion...
Harding and her confederacy of dunces thought they could eliminate the Olympic figure-skating competition with one thwack of a metal baton on Nancy Kerrigan's leg. They would then skate to riches, and nobody would know better. In fact, everybody went to jail but Harding, who plea-bargained her way to probation...
...Madison Guaranty -- the failed thrift once controlled by one-time friends of the Clintons, Jim and Susan McDougal -- will cooperate with the investigation of the finances of the bank and the First Family. The McDougals were the Clintons' partners in the Ozarks Whitewater real estate venture. Under the plea agreement, Palmer -- who admitted to backdating appraisals not directly dealing with the Whitewater property for Madison Guaranty -- agreed to cooperate in the federal probe of Whitewater, Madison Guaranty, and the Clintons' financial affairs