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Emerald ^ CALL OUR ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT S4A-37I2 I Yeltsin halts raids on Chechnya WORLD AKsirrY, Rumu {apj — Blamed for the deaths of hundreds of civilians, lions Yeltsin ordered a halt Wednesday to bombing raids on the devastated c apital of Chechnya Hut hi* fighter jets continued to nuu tne oreasaway region Chechens were skeptical of th«* Russian presi dent's announcement He made the same promise a wiwtk ago, but within a day air strikes worn again punishing Grozny, destroying an orphanage and setting much of the city center ablaze A thick, milky fog enveloped Grozny most of the day on Wednesday, shutting down Russian guns that have pounded the city for weeks Gunfire erupt ed in the outskirts 11! equipped hut determined Chin hen fighters waited to defend their capital The streets of Grozny were littered with burned-out Russian tanks and other debris of war after a failed New Year's five assault The Chechen flag still flew over (he region's parliament The announcement came as the Kremlin sent in fresh troops ,md inn*., apparently gearing tip for .1 now assault on the Cher lien capital and the prized palace of President Dzhokhar Dudayev It was not clear how an end to the bombing of Grozny would nffv< t the military campaign in the Caucasus Mountain region Yeltsin's press service said he made the decision because he was con > emed about 1 iv ih.tr. i asueiUoa Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of civilians and fighters have Iwen killed or wounded in the inva sion. many by indiscriminate air raids Red Cross estimates 350.000 people have been left homeless Yeltsin spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov said the president was unprepared for the harsh criticism ne lias received from within Russia and abroad, and felt if deeply and tragically In Washington, the Stole Department reacted cau tiously to Yeltsin's announcement and said it was anxious to m«* the order carried out "We ll be mon itoring the situation carefully," said spokesman Mh haol MrCtirrv Secretary of Stall* Warren Christopher called Russ tan Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev after the announcement to underscore a need to limit civil ian tasualties. Kozyrev assured him that such an effort was being made, McCurry said. Chechens were not so sure "It's a lie. a deception We remember what hap pened Iasi time," said Musa Gadaborshev, 42. a businessman who has taken 11 refugees into his homo in Nazran, about 35 miles west of the capi tal. Nearby, villagers in tiny Arshty, on the border with Ingushetia, were try ing to make sense of n Russ inn nertal nttm k Tuesday that killed four residents and wounded seven. "There w as no reason for this at all." said one witness. Mrtlrnkhnn Tsatsiev "Wo re all peaceful people, not a single rebel, not a single fighter." Russian warplanes also bombed Shall on Tues day, hitting a hospital and marketplace in the town 20 miles southeast of Grozny. Red Cross officials said 20 people died and at least 1(H) were wound ed Other estimates of the dead were even higher. The Russian minister in charge of ethnic rela tions, Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Yegorov, said Grozny should be in Russian hands — without a battle — by Thursday. He did not explain. Yeltsin has been criticized by his own human rights commissioner. Sergei Kovalyov, who has spent three weeks bunkered down in Grozny. He headed for Moscow on Wednesday with an appeal to stop the war. signed by Hi Russian soldiers cap tured in Chechnya ”(JHinl for yourself how many soldiers have died here." the appeal said. "We can only say that all units sent to storm the city of Grozny on Dec. .31 were completely defeated "And. the most terrible thing is the huge number of civilian casualties — helpless invalids, elderly people, women - most of them othmi Russians who had no place to go." In Mosc ow. a leading reform lawmaker, Grigory Yavlinsky, called for Yeltsin’s resignation, and two top generals repeated their criticism of the war. Attention Duck Fans! 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But at his sm iirnl hearing Tues day, after spending several days in jail, Oladla agreed to be released with a wanting to show up for subsequent appearances, SAHA reported Grenade found in teacher’s cake BANGKOK, Thailand (AH) — Elementary school students tak ing a peek at their teacher's New Year's t ake spotted a booby-trap hand grenade inside. Authorities wore alerted and the cake was defused. Had the children lifted the <ake box's lid wide open, it would have triggered the grenade. Maj. Sompong Musikrak said Wednesday. Sompong said a man handed the box to a pupil at school Tues day and told him to deliver it to his teacher.
