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...exchanges in Budapest joltingly escalated the tensions to the heads- of-state level. This time it was Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin who dropped the big-grin, buddy-buddy act of their previous six face-to-face meetings and traded barbs. Clinton chided Russia indirectly for opposing NATO's plans to define the criteria for admitting Moscow's former satellites Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 1995. NATO is the "bedrock" of European security, said Clinton, and expanding it will make "new members, old members and nonmembers" safer. And if Russia thinks otherwise? Well...
...Yeltsin responded by voicing fear that Europe was about to split again into hostile blocs, this time consisting of everybody else vs. Russia. Expansion of NATO, in his view, would push what many Russians still see as an anti-Moscow alliance right up against the borders of the old Soviet Union. Said Yeltsin: "Europe, not having yet freed itself from the heritage of the cold war, is in danger of plunging into a cold peace. Why sow the seeds of mistrust?" The Russian President also accused Washington of overweening arrogance in playing the role of sole superpower. In his words...
...conflict. Even so, Dudayev ordered his fighters to cease fire and pull back inside the capital, Grozny, this afternoon to avoid Russian shelling. "The Chechen people will stay to the end," he declared. "We have no other way." Chernomyrdin, who has toned down Russian rhetoric after President Boris Yeltsin extended until Saturday a deadline for Chechen surrender, emphasized his negotiation offer with ominous talk of a "definite solution" at the hands of up to 40,000 Russian troops if the Chechens don't give up. Several hundred civilians have reportedly been killed in the conflict, as well...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, meanwhile, is still dodging political volleys from domestic opponents of the intervention. One notable exception: ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who today said: "If you have gangrene, you have to amputate the limb."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...conflict," the head of a Chechen delegation said just before talks opened today in neighboring North Ossetia. Meanwhile, Russian forces continued their advance toward the Chechen capital, Grozny, after the Caucasian republic's loyalists reportedly fired rockets on the advancing troops, killing at least two people. Russian President Boris Yeltsin's risky decision to ship up to 40,000 troops to Grozny prompted rallies by political opponents on both the left and right who fear a military quagmire. But Yeltsin -- who's up for re-election in 1996 -- fired back in an address to Parliament: "It is irresponsible...