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Fighting intensifies for Chechnya independem
GROZNY, Russia (AP) —
Fighter jets attacked the airport
of the Chechen capital Tuesday,
hours after Russi-an President
Boris Yeltsin threatened to crack
down on the breakaway region if
the fighting doesn’t stop.
It was the first time jets have
been used in the escalating con
flict in the Caucasus Mountains
region, which declared indepen
dence from Moscow in 1991.
Russia has openly backed the
opposition to elected Chechen
ran
to
President Dzhokhar Dudayev,
get
out
but denies providing any mili
of
the
tary help. It says mercenaries
city
cen-
are involved on both sides.
ter while
Dudayev said the jet attack
o t h
e r s
was the latest sign that Russia
sen
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is arming and leading the oppo
b 1
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sition forces.
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“Here you see the situation
bus
e s .
with your own eyes,” he told re
S o
m e
porters minutes after the jets
w e
r e
flew low over the city and anti-
cry i
ng,
threatened to execute them if
Russia did not claim them by
Tuesday evening. Dudayev later
said the Russians would be
treated as prisoners of war.
The deadline passed with no
word on the prisoners’ fate.
Yeltsin issued an ultimatum
of his own Tuesday. He de
manded that all prisoners be re
leased and that both sides dis
band their forces within 48
hours, or Russia would impose a
state of
e m e r -
gency in
the
mostly
Muslim
republic
of 1.2
— Col. Aslan Maskhadov, Chechnya million
... j people.
miiitary commander “Any
— ;— hope for
the in-
At the airport, four Tu-134
civil aircraft were destroyed and
smoking on the tarmac. A few
hundred yards away, two stor
age tanks of jet fuel had been
hit and were belching orange
flames into the night sky.
Ali Khasiev, head of airport
security, said there were no ca
sualties.
As a plume of black smoke
from the downed plane rose
over Grozny, some residents
pr :
"We've already waited 300 years
for our independence - today we
are ready to fight."
aircraft fire roared out. “You
hear and have seen the plane go
down.”
Chechen officials claim to
have shot down a Russian-
made MiG fighter, one of four
MiGs and four Su-27s that
they said attacked the airport
six miles north of the Chechen
capital, Grozny. They also
claimed to have shot down two
helicopters.
some carrying children.
The latest opposition offen
sive began last week with heli
copter attacks on Grozny’s out
skirts. Dudayev’s forces re
pulsed the attacks Saturday in
heavy fighting at his presiden
tial palace.
His government claimed to
have captured about 70 Rus
sians, including Army officers
and soldiers, and on Sunday
ternal settlement of the conflict
inside Chechnya has been ex
hausted,” Yeltsin said. “The sit
uation poses an extreme danger
to stability and peace in our so
ciety, to the vital interests and
'national security of Russia.”
Moscow has sent troops once
before, in late 1991, to try to
force Chechnya to abandon its
independence, but pulled back
in the face of popular resis
tance. Since then, it has
tained a heavy military
ence nearby.
Chechnya and other regij
in the Caucasus put up fiei
resistance to Russian impei
encroachment in the 19th t
tury, and continue to havi
reputation in Russia ast
tamed and criminal.
Dudayev has warnedtt
the conflict could sprei
throughout Russia’s Caucasus
“We’ve already waited I
years for our independem
and we’re prepared to waitin'
ther — today we’re ready
fight,” said Chechnya’s ml
tary commander, Col. Asli
Maskhadov, as he studied
map in his operations room.
On guard outside, Iran
Oysaev, a veteran of the Afghi
war who had a large bayon
hanging from his belt anda
assault rifle over his shouldti
said: “We don’t want war,h
they’re attacking our families
our homes.”
Chechnya’s foreign minis!?
Yousef Shamsedin
Yeltsin’s threats meant nothin
Asked whether Dudayev hope
to speak with Yeltsii
Shamsedin replied: “You thiti
he will pray to Yeltsin to tala
back this ultimatum? Never.Hi
is a Chechen.”
Solutions to civil unrest in Zaire, Tanzania lead to violent
GENEVA (AP) — Sending soldiers to restore order in Rwan
dan refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania probably will only
lead to more violence, an official of the U.N. children’s fund said
Tuesday.
The comments by Nigel Fisher, UNICEF representative in
Rwanda, contradicted a recommendation by U.N. Secretary-Gen
eral Boutros Boutros-Ghali to send soldiers to the camps, which
house more than 1 million refugees.
The camps in Zaire and Tanzania are controlled by leaders of
the defeated Rwandan government and by Hutu militiamen and
soldiers, including those suspected of committing massacres in
Rwanda.
The solution to security problems in camps in Zaire and Tanzs
nia is to convince refugees to go home — not to send in soldiers?
police, Fisher said.
“Either of those solutions will probably lead to violence,” lii
said.
UNICEF and other aid agencies think the Rwandan govern
ment installed by victorious Tutsi-led rebels is “as good an option
as there is going to be, and is worth supporting,” Fisher said.
He rejected the view of the U.N. refugee agency that there wero
systematic revenge killings in the country.
Remedial
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college classes in 1994-95 was $127 mil
lion and in 1988-89 was $35 million.
Gary Engelgau, executive director of
admissions and records, said that an in
crease in statewide requirements for the
TASP may have contributed to the in
crease in enrollment.
“If students do not pass the test, they
have to be given remediation,” Engelgau
said.
“That is what’s driven a lot of this. How
ever, tfce real question is if the money for re
mediation has gone up for this campus.”
Engelgau said he does not believe stu
dents have demonstrated an increased
need for remediation classes.
“The average standards or qualifica
tions for the freshman class have been
improving every year,” Engelgau said.
“This includes test scores, such as the
SAT and the ACT. The trend is up. All
kids are improving to some degree.”
Statewide, 46.2 percent of the money
spent on remedial courses for 1994-95
was spent on teaching basic math skills,
compared to 32.9 percent for writing and
20.9 percent for reading.
At A&M, however, the numbers are
different, Sturdivant said.
The majority of students take remedi
ation courses at A&M are taking writing
courses, she said.
This could possibly be because the ad
missions criteria for A&M focuses more ot
the math courses students have taken.
“Also, we enroll a lot of students in ea
gineering, business and science,” SW :
vant said.
"These require strong math bad
grounds.”
She said community colleges will see
greater evidence of the increase in reme
diation enrollment.
“Most of the remedial education is at
the two-year community colleges or insti
tutions, not Texas A&M,” she said.
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