Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chechnya, disengage troops on the ground and set up a conciliation commission. He swaggered a bit, claiming he had a secret plan to end the Chechnya problem for good but had to talk with President Boris Yeltsin before making it public. And he boldly demanded that Yeltsin get rid of the Moscow official he blamed for Russia's latest bloody disaster in Chechnya, where a week of brutal combat has returned the capital city of Grozny to rebel control...
...give him a certain amount of rope, possibly in the hope that the tough-talking ex-soldier will hang himself. "If Lebed makes peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin wins," says TIME's Andrew Keith. "If Lebed doesn't make peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin can hold him accountable and get rid of him." -->