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Croatia gave a dramatic demonstration of military power last August, when it drove rebel Serbs from the Krajina region. That offensive took place seven months after MPRI began its work in the country. Serb and European military analysts suggested that the Croats had outside help, and MPRI quickly found itself on the defensive. But Soyster insists MPRI's role in Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on military-civil relations and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons. Other U.S. military men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many suspect more than classroom instruction was involved...
...Harbury, a human-rights crusader against the Guatemalan military, was fire-bombed on Friday. The explosion outside the lawyer's Washington home raised fear of a terrorist vendetta. New Jersey Representative Robert Torricelli, a backer of Harbury's efforts to uncover the truth behind the death of her Guatemalan rebel husband, asked Attorney General Janet Reno to open an investigation. A Guatemalan army spokesman denied that the military was involved. On Saturday at least one shot was fired at Harbury's Washington home. She was not at there at the time. The FBI said there appeared to be no connection...
PERVOMAYSKAYA, DAGESTAN: Russian forces unleashed waves of artillery, rockets and helicopter fire after reports that Chechen rebels had shot some of roughly 100 local hostages they have held for six days. The attacks apparently have failed to dislodge many of the rebel fighters. Fewer than 10 hostages were freed and there was no clear information on whether others were slaughtered in the crossfire. "It looks like about half the village is destroyed," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The Russian military spokesman told journalists that we should not have an impression that this artillery barrage was indiscriminate. But the Russian army...
...rebels now demand that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who diffused a similar situation last June, take part in the negotiations. Unlike that crisis, Moscow this time has so far refused to enter talks. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is taking a hard-line approach. In Paris to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand, Yeltsin said he would agree to the rebel demand that Russian troops leave Chechnya, but only after the rebels agree to disarm. This essentially has been the Russian position for several months and a chief sticking point when peace talks collapsed last year...
Ever prepared with simple solutions to intractable problems, ultranationalist and Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky called on the Kremlin to "Take off the white gloves and rose-colored glasses and stop the war in the Caucasus." Vlad's solution: "Burn all rebel bases with napalm...