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...Soviet days, simply declared himself a winner. His troops, he claimed at a news conference in the Kremlin, killed 153 Chechens, captured 28, and freed 82 hostages after besieging Pervomaiskoye, a hamlet in far-off Dagestan. "We have taught Dudayev a sound lesson," Yeltsin said, referring to Chechen separatist leader Jokhar Dudayev. Now, Yeltsin threatened, Russia will hit more rebel strongholds "to put an end to terrorism on Russian soil...
More than three years after federal law enforcement officers were involved in a deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at his mountaintop home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, a Senate committee released a report into the incident and sharply criticized all of the agencies that were involved. "While Randy Weaver made mistakes," read the report. "So did every federal law enforcement agency involved in the Ruby Ridge incident." In addition to the FBI, the committee scored the U.S. Marshals Service and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The report singled out FBI Director Louis Freeh, who took office...
...heroic stand against Russian ground and air forces, Dudayev lost the battle for the capital, Grozny, in February, along with his heavy weapons and access to the country's oil refineries. Expert analysts estimate that Dudayev's hard-core forces may be down to around 2,000. Nonetheless, his separatist government managed to hold a full-fledged congress two months ago in the sleepy village of Roshni-Chu, an hour's drive south from Grozny...
...major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after a one-year transition period, which can be extended to two years by either party, with a U.N. administration during the transition...
Lucien Bouchard, the charismatic leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, has changed his mind about quitting the fray. Bouchard, who announced he was considering leaving politics after Quebec's referendum to secede from Canada was narrowly defeated last month, says he will seek to replace outgoing Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau. "Bouchard has put regionalism ahead of a national role in government," says TIME's William McWhirter. "What he's done is say Quebec is more important than the country. And given his success in galvanizing Quebeckers during the referendum, he is the province's best chance at gaining independence. Bouchard...