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...Yeltsin vowed to take the war to Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev: "Now we will strike a blow at those Dudayev strongholds where there is no civilian population to put an end to this war." But although Yeltsin's government has won this battle, the demolition of Pervomayskaya may still spark a larger conflict. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that many in the autonomous republic of Dagestan are seething over what they see as the Russian government's willingness to risk the lives of Dagestani hostages to destroy the invading rebels. "Not unlike neighboring Chechnya, there are caches of weapons...
ISLAMISTS SPARK CRISIS...
...BIRD you can't catch. Parker, who died in 1955, was a jazz innovator, a sax master, a wildly talented instrumentalist who could improvise his way through songs with an easy daring and offhand profundity. Saxophonists who pay too literal tribute to Bird's work miss its spark and point--its emotionality is linked to its originality...
Computers have not replaced the human touch in TIME's research--that spark of humor, that willingness to make the extra effort. Time Chronicles editor Bruce Handy delights in using Nexis to track quirky statistical trends, such as last week's chart of the popularity of various presidential adjectives. (Clintonian, with 536 citations over 15 years, edged out Reaganesque, with 473). "I've never heard anyone at the center admit defeat," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff, a devoted fan. "Last month we requested information on a drug bust, date unknown, in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park. The faxes...
Serious tragedies occur almost weekly. Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...