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...gutted presidential palace in Grozny, the republic's capital, Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared an end to the bloody six-week rebellion. "Don't worry. Everything will be settled soon on the Chechen issue," he said. "I am in strict control." Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev, and battle-hardened Chechen fighters vowed to take their fight into the mountains south of Grozny-promising a long and fierce guerrilla...
...Year's Day cease-fire, negotiated in part by former President Jimmy Carter, looked increasingly fragile. More than 400 explosions were reported near the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslims battled Bosnian government forces. In Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, Serb troops refused to allow the U.N. to de-ice the airport runway, and in Tuzla, in north-central Bosnia, 1,000 peacekeepers were blockaded without food or heat by the government...
Little more than a year ago in Chiapas state, the eruption of the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army triggered national turmoil. Renewed militancy there last month was widely seen as contributing to the wrecking of the peso and the loss of billions of dollars around the world. Whatever the global reaction, in Chiapas the small band of rebels has reason to be awed at the impact of its efforts. Army units were rushed in not only to combat the rebels but also to help improve the life of peasants by building clinics, schools and roads. Government public works projects picked...
Meanwhile in Chiapas, the new round of talks began between the Zapatistas, led by ski-masked Subcomandante Marcos, and a government delegation headed by Interior Minister Moctezuma. After a four-hour meeting, the government agreed to pull several hundred occupying troops out of two villages sympathetic to the rebel cause, while the Zapatistas agreed to extend a truce indefinitely. The two sides remained far apart on an accord to end the uprising, though...
...bright notes do not mean that most peasants welcomed the face-off between the guerrillas and the army. For many it has brought harsh treatment from the occupying forces. In San Andres Larrainzar, one of the rebel- infiltrated towns where the army withdrew its troops last week, residents consider both sides equally repressive. ``We just want to live in peace,'' says Miguel Lopez Gomez, an elder in the local church who wears the traditional wool tunic of the Tzotzil Indians. ``We want to work, pray, feed our families. We don't want any confrontations here...