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Page If • Tuesday, November 30, 1999 Wc ORLD An authorized TAG Heuer dealer. Officials urge civilians to flee Chechen capital Stavropol Kray RUSSIA Grozny Ingushetia © Dagestan GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Russian officials yesterday urged civilians hid ing in basements beneath ruined homes in Grozny to flee the Chechen capital — a risky endeavor with Russ ian rockets screaming relentlessly into the city. Federal forces showed no signs of easing up raids on the breakaway re public of Chechnya, even as a top in ternational mediator held talks in Moscow to arrange a visit to the re public. The Kremlin has dismissed in ternational criticism of its campaign in Chechnya as meddling in Russia’s in ternal affairs. The Russians have intensified their bombardment of Grozny in the past week, leaving hundreds dead or wounded and destroying scores of buildings and homes. Russian officials estimate 50,000 civilians remain in the city, many of whom are old, infirm or lack transportation to leave. In brief intervals between the strikes yesterday, civilians crawled out of basement shelters to fetch water and try to find food. “It’s like an endless lottery, with death being the only stake. Every day brings new death,” Marzhan Khaki- mova, a 72-year-old woman living in a Grozny basement, said. Yesterday’s raids hit one of Grozny’s main thoroughfares, Avtarkhanov Av enue, as well as residential neighbor- North Ossetia, Chechnya GEORGIA 25 miles 25 km Survivor returned to family in AP hoods and a car market. Witnesses said there were casualties, but no fig ures were immediately available. In Moscow, Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Koshman,.Russia’s representa tive to Chechnya, said Moscow would rebuild Grozny when the war was over, but now was the time for civil ians to flee. CARDENAS, Cuba (AP) — The 5-year-old Cuban boy who survived a boat capsize en route to the United States was handed over to his relatives in Miami yesterday, and his father in Cuba accused them of trying to make money off his son. The boy, Elian Gonzalez, was quickly becoming the focus of an international tug-of-war. While his father and the Cuban gov ernment have demanded his re turn, U.S. authorities temporari ly turned him over to relatives who were fighting to keep him in the United States. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the fa ther, said he initially was thank ful that his aunt and cousin in South Florida were taking care of Elian, but had come to believe that they were “enriching them selves” with the highly politi cized case. “[Elian) has been kid napped,” he told “Associated Press Television News” in an in terview yesterday at his coastal home east of Havana. “If I have to go and look for him, I will.” “Here, he has his health care and education free,” Gonzalez, 31, a park employee, said. “He does not lack anything.” About 50 of Gonzalez’s neigh bors and co-workers had rallied at his home earlier in the day to support his efforts to bring Elian back to Cuba. Later, inside the living room dominated by a poster of revolu tionary icon Ernesto “Che” Gue vara, Mariela Quintana, 51, Gon zalez’s mother andtL i 5 grandmother, pleadeS^L-—■ for the boy’s return.C|^ second wife, Nelsi, nursed her baby, month-old half-broth Elian was found tire coast of Fort U| Fla., Thursday powerboat carrying! refugees capsized. survivors were resend Biscayne, Fla. Seven bodies were:;! fore the U.S. CoastCiJ off the search. Threes [he are presumed deal Cuba blames States for the tragedy] the child had beenl by his mother, whod-j the voyage. ■" We Can Do it All! 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