Word: raiding
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...Foreign Minister Alain Juppe convened a crisis team, while Interior Minister Charles Pasqua met with aides long into the night. The first objective of the French was to persuade the Algerians to allow the elite National Gendarmes Intervention Group (G.I.G.N.) to provide "technical" assistance for a raid on the plane. The antiterrorist unit had been put on alert shortly after the plane's seizure. At 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, some nine hours after the Airbus was taken, about 40 G.I.G.N. troopers took off from a military base near Paris aboard an Air France Airbus A300, identical...
...Grozny, reports TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. Soldiers are currently in the city's suburbs, but plan on overrunning it in a matter of days, sources tell Zarakhovich. Today also brought news of a near-tragedy of ghastly proportions as an orphanage in Grozny was destroyed by an air raid -- even though yesterday Yeltsin pledged to limit civilian casualties. All 47 children escaped death by hiding in a basement bomb shelter. Chechen officials claim that 200 people have died in the fighting.Despite the continued ferocity of the attack and the fact that it's reminiscent of the long and bloody...
...after Chechen forces virtually ran out of ammunition, Russian planes and artillery unleashed a bitter offensive on Grozny, the capital of the separatist republic. The offensive killed 24 civilians, including a American freelance photographer. Scenes of carnage dotted the city after the first daylight air raid in the civil war -- a sign that Russia is now pushing to end what has become a quagmire. But a speedy end to the fighting would come despite fierce Chechen resistance, overwhelming domestic opposition and turmoil in the Russian military command. Several Russian generals have disobeyed orders or sharply criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev...
...forces dropped bombs and advanced toward the heart of Chechnya amid fierce shelling today, after the separatist republic snubbed a Saturday ultimatum from Moscow to drop their arms and the effort to open peace talks failed Sunday. While Russian warplanes set a gas refinery on fire in a bombing raid outside the Chechen capital, Grozny, and two missiles hit the city directly, Russian troops, sent into the Caucasus mountain region last week, encountered heavy resistance. But President Boris Yeltsin faced growing opposition to the intervention as thousands of worried parents sent Yeltsin telegrams asking for information about their sons...
Shrugging off three separate nato air strikes -- including the largest air raid in Europe since World War II -- Bosnian Serbs continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready...