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...Russian army, police and security forces to attack the village of Pervomaiskoye, where some 300 Chechen rebels held more than 100 civilians hostage. Yeltsin claimed that 82 people were released in the sledgehammer operation, but the village was destroyed and some of the terrorists--reportedly including their leader, Salman Raduyev, related by marriage to Jokhar Dudayev, the chief rebel leader--escaped back into Chechnya...
...official body count, 137 of the 320 rebels remain unaccounted for. It's believed that many of them escaped through Russian lines during fierce fighting Thursday as hundreds of Chechens crossed into Dagestan in a daring raid to free the trapped rebels. Among those thought to have escaped: Salman Raduyev, commander of the rebel group. Just how many hostages were killed in the assault, and by whom, is still unclear. "Moscow now says there were 110 hostages, but journalists who worked in the area estimated their number at 170," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Yeltsin said Thursday night that...
Coming from Salman Rushdie, the notion of a man writing under a death sentence takes on a certain poignance. And the temptation exists, since he is the West's most prominent enforced recluse, to read everything he has written since the Ayatullah Khomeini's infamous fatwa in 1988 as a comment on his personal dilemma. But The Moor's Last Sigh--Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses--should not be taken only, or even principally, as veiled autobiography. It is much too teeming and turbulent, too crammed with history and dreams, to fit into any imaginable category, except...
...Yuri Zarakhovich. "The rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev, the son-in-law of Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev, the rebels say they will kill the hostages if Russia does not withdraw troops from Chechnya. The action was reminiscent of a similar incident last June, when Chechen fighters held more than 1,000 hostages in a hospital in the Russian...
...Salman Rushdie made a rare pre-announced public appearance when he spoke at a Writers Against the State forum in London. "This is a very important moment for me, and I hope it will be the first of more such moments," the writer said. Then again, maybe not. The Moor's Last Sigh, Rushdie's new novel, has infuriated Hindu militants in India...