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...fierce critic of Moscow's policy, neighboring Ingushetia's President Ruslan Aushev believes Putin is heading toward disaster. Russian generals have learned nothing, he told TIME last week. Troops lack the motivation to fight a long war, and "tanks and artillery solve nothing here." Sure, the massive men and materiel Russia is throwing into the war should eventually prevail--for a time. Moscow has committed 140,000 men to crush the revolt of a Chechen population hovering around 100,000. Sooner or later, Russian troops "will get into Grozny and raise the flag," says Aushev. "But what then...
...Universe had served more than 300,000 customers--which translates to roughly 300,000 credit-card numbers salted away in its electronic files. Last month the site's parent company, eUniverse, based in Wallingford, Conn., was contacted by someone identifying himself as "Maxus," a 19-year-old Russian who claimed to have hacked into those files and filched those numbers. The FBI has since asked the company not to reveal whether that communication came by fax or e-mail, but the message was the same. "I found a security hole," the extortionist wrote...
...other newspapers, and his messages appear to originate in Paris. The FBI and various Web experts have been following other electronic bread crumbs he left behind, however, and those point more strongly to Russia or Eastern Europe. An independent Net-sleuth group even claims to have located Latvian and Russian accounts Maxus uses for cash drops. "It's likely that he's in Europe, unless he's really good," says John Markoff, the Times reporter to whom Maxus sent his e-mail. "And if he's that skilled, no one's going to catch...
...Political pawn ___ Gonzalez 2 Year-end temp 3 He now runs the Kremlin 4 Al's predecessor 5 Avail oneself of 6 Republican also-runner 7 Itar-___ (Russian news agency) 8 McCain opposes its subsidies; Bradley used to 9 Thai's neighbor 10 A deg. held by some lawyers 12 Bradley/Gore pol. affiliation 16 She supported 26-Down's decision on 1-Down 20 Tiebreakers, briefly 23 Charged atom 24 Newspaper that broke the Paxson story 26 Org. that ruled that 1-Down should be returned to Cuba 27 Jetsam of 1773 28 Comedian Bill, to his friends 30 Cokie...
When magician David Copperfield found himself in a bind he couldn?t escape, he got some real masters-of-the-universe help from former CIA and KGB insiders. After a December 12 performance in Moscow, Copperfield had his seven trucks and all his equipment seized by the Russian promoters, who claimed he owed them money. The State Department was unable to help, and after three weeks without his trucks, a desperate Copperfield turned to IGI, a security agency populated with former CIA and FBI insiders. The ex-spooks reached out to the KGB vets they had spied...