Word: rebels
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...from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named "The Gangster of Love," and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko. Hagedorn?s first novel, "Dogeaters," was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. "The Gangster of Love...
...very same day, however, the Kremlin had issued a presidential order bidding Lebed "to restore law and order in Grozny the way it existed" before the rebel advance. Yeltsin's intentions were opaque. Was the President giving a green light for the offensive? Or did he want Lebed's peace talks to proceed? Was he purposely pitting officials against each other, or did he know nothing of what was going...
Lebed prevailed by force of will. After eight hours of strenuous talks with the rebel leaders, interrupted by frantic calls to the Chechen and Russian camps to quell sporadic fighting, he announced a breakthrough that he claimed would "terminate this bloody bacchanalia." A cease-fire would commence at noon on Friday, Russian troops would begin departing Grozny, and joint patrols would police the shattered city. In another couple of days, he promised to produce a permanent political solution to Chechnya's bid for independence. Never mind that similar plans have come and gone in the 20-month war. Claiming credit...
...would meet with his boss to settle things. Yeltsin initially declined to see his envoy or endorse his blueprint for peace. But later, he reportedly told Lebed by telephone that he generally approved of his initial efforts to end the war and authorized him to hold talks with Chechen rebel leaders on a political accord that would keep Chechnya within the Russian Federation. Lebed headed back to Chechnya over the weekend to work out such a settlement...
GROZNY, Russia: Thousands of weary Russian soldiers continued their withdrawal from the Chechen capital of Grozny Thursday, and on the other side of the city, about 1,900 jubilant rebels pulled out as well. The withdraw could be complete as early as Saturday, barring any new violence or other delays. The Chechens also returned 16 Russian prisoners of war. The pullout is taking place under the terms of an agreement brokered last week by security chief Alexander Lebed, and rebel forces are also supposed to withdraw from some areas of the city. Lebed, who is in Moscow after briefing Prime...