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...Russian President suddenly softened the bellicose rhetoric. The Kremlin announced that Yeltsin had not actually signed an order imposing a state of emergency in Chechnya. Instead, he offered all Chechens a limited amnesty if they voluntarily handed in their weapons by Dec. 15. Hopes for a settlement focused on a parliamentary delegation that met with Dudayev in Grozny and returned to Moscow with two of the imprisoned Russians...
...settlement remains and, according to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will not be relocated. While Rabin has no great affection for the place, he believes that dismantling it would amount to rewarding the militants, and thus encourage attacks against other Jewish settlements. Says Uri Dromi, director of Israel's Government Press Office: "The message we want to send is that to get something out of Israel, you have to sit down and talk." Under the limited self-rule agreement that Israel signed with Yasser Arafat, the fate of all the settlements is to be decided in negotiations, scheduled to begin...
...Israeli settlers in the zone, Netzarim is in an area of dense Arab population on the outskirts of Gaza City. Down the road sits the Palestinian village of al-Mograka, whose residents chafe at the restrictions that Netzarim's presence imposes on them. "People will never accept the settlement here," says Nasr Azzam, who runs the local general store. "It is a strange body and a symbol of the occupation...
...leaders of Israel's settlement movement are preparing for a fight over Netzarim, and have called for "active resistance," as yet undefined, to any effort to uproot the hamlet. Given Rabin's position, the campaign may be , premature -- but not by much. "Anybody with brains in his head knows that when it comes to the final status," says Dromi, "some settlements will have to go." Netzarim will probably lead the list...
...month-old war in the former Yugoslavia. At cross-purposes among themselves, the Western allies have been unable to muster measures capable of making a difference. They remain unwilling to use sufficient force to challenge Serb domination, and the Serbs and the Bosnians still refuse to agree on any settlement negotiated by mediators. The Serb reaction last week to U.N. scolding and NATO's minor bombing was almost contemptuous. In a telephone call to U.N. commander Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose's headquarters, Jovan Zametica, a senior Serb official, warned, "Don't mess with...