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Chechens
cautioned
Last chance for Grozny residents
Russian planes dropped fliers over the Chechen capital telling residents
to leave by Saturday or be destroyed by massive air attacks. A corridor
for citizens to escape will remain open until Dec. 11.
Orissa governmei
to evacuate
Russian airstrike or artillery shelling RUSSIA
Population center
offers cyclone reli
ran
DOLINSKY, Russia (AP) — Russian planes
dropped leaflets on Chechnya’s besieged capi
tal yesterday, warning residents and rebels to
flee before federal forces launch a massive at
tack to smash Grozny into submission.
The Russian military has been raining
bombs and artillery on the city for weeks but
has been hesitant to risk storming it, for fear
that street battles would cause the kind of
heavy casualties that Russia suffered in
Grozny in the 1994-96 war.
Now the Russians are threatening to unleash
their biggest artillery and air bombardment on
the city so far. Russian forces dumped leaflets On
Grozny yesterday telling rebel fighters and civil
ians that they had until Saturday to flee. The
fliers said a safe corridor would be open until
Dec. 11 to let civilians escape.
“Persons who stay in the city will be consid
ered terrorists and bandits and will be destroyed
by artillery and aviation,” the leaflets read.
“There will be no further negotiations. Everyone
who does not leave the city will be destroyed.”
It was unclear who could or would leave.
Most of the civilians in Grozny — the Russians
estimate between 15,000 and 40,000 remain —
are old or infirm.
“We had to flee when they made such an ulti
matum during the previous war,” Zina Ferzauli, a
refugee from Grozny staying in the village of
Dolinsky, nine miles to the northwest, said. “Last
time they also said that those who stayed in the
city were militants. It turned out that many of
them were elderly people who had nowhere to go,
and exactly the same thing will happen now.”
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Sputnik
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BHUBANESWAR, India (AP)
—The new chief minister of In
dia’s Orissa state promised to
get relief operations back on
track yesterday as thousands of
homeless people waited for
food and shelter in the cyclone-
ravaged region.
After a brief swearing-in cer
emony, Hemanand Biswal di
rected senior officials to quickly
distribute plastic sheets and
blankets to the 2.5 million
homeless people still camping
out in 10 coastal districts bat
tered in the Oct. 29 cyclone.
Biswal replaced Giridhar
Gamang as chief minister of the
southeastern Indian state. Sonia
Gandhi, president of the Con
gress party that rules Orissa,
fired Gamang Sunday for his
slow response to the devastating
cyclone that killed nearly 10,000
people and destroyed thousands
of mud and thatch huts. The
government’s relief efforts have
drawn widespread criticism.
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At a press conference in the
state capital, Bhubaneswar,
Biswal told reporters that his
government had ordered that all
victims be compensated and all
damaged schools and hospital
buildings be repaired by the end
of the month.
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Yeltsin leaves hospital, plans China trip Pakistani police Search for Serial kill
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Presi
dent Boris Yeltsin returned to the
Kremlin yesterday after a week of
hospital treatment, and his aides
said he would visit China this week.
Yeltsin, 68, fell ill this month with
what the Kremlin said was bronchi
tis. Doctors sent him to the Central
Clinical Hospital on Nov. 29 after di
agnosing possible pneumonia.
Yeltsin left the hospital yesterday
and met with Ukraine’s President
Leonid Kuchma in the Kremlin. The
Russian leader then left for his
country residence outside Moscow
to continue his recovery, the presi
dential press service said.
The Kremlin later announced
that the president would visit China
tomorrow.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) —While on the trail of
the killer of 100 children, Pakistani police have
detained two men who admitted they had sex
with many of the alleged serial killer’s victims.
Police are hunting for a man who identified
himself as laved Iqbal in a letter he sent to police
last week in which he said he killed the children,
then disposed of their bodies in acid.
Police spokesperson Ashiq Marath said yes
terday that police in the eastern dty : of La
have two men in custody who saythattl
friends of Iqbal. The two men confessedihf
sexually assaulted 25 of the children, but lx
nied killing their captives, according to Mai
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