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Seton has not called for Burton's resignation, but he said he advises Driskell to have a frank talk with Burton and take control of the situation...
Building by building, street by street, the frenzied battle for control of a pile of rubble once known as Grozny continues. And the only certainty in the battle?s outcome is that it will leave hundreds of men dead. Russian and Chechen officials routinely understate their casualties, so when Moscow admitted Thursday that it has lost 23 men in the past day and the Chechen government says 45 of its fighters have died in the past week, it?s safe to assume that the streets of Grozny are littered with corpses. Russia also confirmed that one of its senior generals...
...city and claiming you've won," says Zharakovich. "In a war against guerrilla forces, capturing a city doesn't mean anything." The bulk of the Chechen forces are already in the mountains to the south, and constant ambushes and attacks behind Russian lines signify the limits of territorial control in this war. Still, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin desperately needs a way to declare victory in the popular military campaign that he hopes will carry him to the presidency in March. And he appears to have decided that his road to the Kremlin passes through Grozny...
DIED. ADAM YARMOLINSKY, 77, one of the brightest of the "Whiz Kids" brought in by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Kennedy Administration, later an architect of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty programs, Harvard professor and an expert on arms control; in Washington...
...Syria over the weekend mooted postponing a return to Washington, and the formal announcement came from Israel on Monday. The first round of talks between Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa ended inconclusively at Shepherdstown, W. Va., last week as the two sides wrestled for control of the agenda. And both sides are clearly encountering domestic political resistance to making the concessions required for a peace deal. "This process is going to be slow and difficult, and we're going to see a number of crises before they reach a deal," says MacLeod. "We shouldn...