Word: regionally
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KIZLYAR, DAGESTAN: Chechen rebels are holding as many as 1,000 hostages in a Russian hospital 60 miles north of Grozny, the Chechen capital. "Some 400 rebels attacked Kizlyar in neighboring Dagestan, an ethnic republic to the northeast of the breakaway region," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev...
Furthermore, now that I have put down roots in the Pacific Northwest, I have been forced to rethink some of my long-held beliefs about population flows. It is evident to those of us who have grown to love and cherish this region that it is in danger of becoming much too crowded. Only a few days ago, as a visitor from the East, I would have described the vista I gaze at while writing this as a green landscape pleasantly dappled with humanity. Now that I live here, the same view stands revealed to me as a nightmare vision...
Moving swiftly to establish authority, Major General William Nash, commander of the American forces in Bosnia, gathered leaders of the region's three warring factions to talk peace. The general met with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas...
...NORTHEAST Major snowstorm added to general retail woes makes it the hardest-hit region...
...Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But the mission would not put American forces in great danger, nor would it be costly. Clinton can and will assert U.S. interests are at stake here. Aside from the oil reserves, the U.S. has made a lot of progress in promoting peace throughout the region." While Perry did not stipulate what the size of the U.S. force would be, Thompson estimates it would be commensurate with the U.S. presence in the Sinai, about 500-1,000 troops...