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...Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, "opponent'' is something of a career description. As part of Fidel Castro's rebel army in the 1950s, he led 3,000 men against the Batista dictatorship. When the victorious Castro moved politically into the Soviet camp, Menoyo launched a quixotic raid against his former comrades. That landed him in a Cuban jail for 22 years. Released in 1987, he flew to Miami, where he was greeted by cheering crowds of fellow exiles...
...support her, held their ground last week. For three years, the county's revenues have lagged hundreds of millions of dollars behind its budgets, with the deficits covered through big-time borrowing. This year the lenders, spooked by the spectacular bankruptcy of nearby Orange County, seem ready to rebel. Within days of Reed's announcement, three major investment services warned potential buyers of L.A. County's bond issues that its credit rating was being reviewed or downgraded, an adjustment that could signal the start of a tailspin. Zev Yaroslavsky, a fiscally hard-nosed Democrat who is the swing vote...
...bloodbath. As government forces kept a tense vigil outside the hospital, stories quickly spread that to discourage rescue attempts the terrorists had mined the building and splashed gasoline on the hostages-numbering by some estimates close to 2,000. Ratcheting up the war of nerves, Shamil Basayev, a top rebel commander and leader of the operation, told journalists at a hastily improvised press conference: "It does not matter to us when we die. If necessary, we will shoot the hostages...
...were pushed to the windows as targets. Both sides agreed to a cease-fire, and 227 hostages were freed; but shooting resumed again after five hours. When a second Russian attempt to storm the hospital failed, an uneasy stalemate settled in. Chernomyrdin moved to break the deadlock by calling rebel leader Basayev directly by telephone at the hospital to discuss conditions for the release of the hostages, including a cease-fire in the Chechen war. Yeltsin meanwhile had gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the summit of the seven leading economic powers was being held. After meeting with Yeltsin...
...days after Russian troops captured Shatoi, the last rebel stronghold in Chechnya, scores of Chechen fighters drove into Russia and terrorized the quiet provincial town of Budyonnovsk, killing as many as 100 people and gathering some 2,000 hostages in the town's three-story hospital. The rebels' commander, Shamil Basayev, rejected an offer of safe passage and said that only a Russian pullback from the breakaway republic would save the hostages. Russian troops twice stormed the hospital on Saturday; but after both attempts had failed, the authorities resumed hard bargaining with the rebels...