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...Russians to the peace table. He negotiated the deal that made Monday's elections possible. But the Chechens' overwhelming choice of Maskhadov over rival Shamil Basayev, a young rebel leader, shows political savvy in equal parts to gratitude. Moscow considers Basayev a terrorist for his 1995 hostage-taking raid on a southern Russian town, while Maskhadov is seen by Russia as the least of separatist evils. "Maskhadov will not press the problem of recognizing independence for Chechnya immediately so he is the best person both for Russia and Chechnya," said Alexander Iskandarian, director of a Moscow think tank...
Across town, some 20 heavily armed Tupac Amaru militants still hold 74 hostages--including Fujimori's brother--inside the Japanese ambassador's residence, which they seized in a stunning raid on a gala cocktail party Dec. 17. Their main demand: the release of 450 comrades imprisoned in holes like Castro Castro. Turning to the reporters from Time he has taken into the prison, Fujimori waves his hand at the cells. "How do you expect me to negotiate with violent criminals like these? I can't let these people go. Never...
...many students, college is about leaving home for the first time, going several months without snuggling with their old teddy bear or being able to raid the fridge...
...wagon when he arrived in Texas in 1980, Stockman unseated 42-year incumbent Jack Brooks in 1994 with a shrewd one-issue campaign--opposing gun control--that resonated with the district's large gun-owning population. In Congress Stockman has drawn fire for such positions as calling the Waco raid on the Branch Davidian compound a ploy by federal agencies to build support for the assault-weapons...
...wake of that raid, agents came back to arrest Dennis Peron, the club's founder and a leader of support for the ballot measure. But his arrest was so controversial in San Francisco, where local police had already declined to shut down the club, that the indictment had to be obtained in nearby Alameda County. Events had already brought Doonesbury into the picture. For a week Zonker, the comic strip's aging soul-at-large, lamented the bust on Peron's club and went desperately in search of alternative sources for the patients it left stranded. Unfair, said Dan Lungren...