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Chechens maintain
resistance in Grozny
ALKHAN-YURT, Russia (AP) -
About 2,000 Chechen fighters broke
through the Russian blockade of Grozny
and tried to head south to join up with fel
low rebels Tuesday, battling federal
forces attempting to prevent their escape
with tanks and artillery.
Other rebels stayed in the battered
Chechen capital to keep up the fierce re-
sistance they have mounted to months of
air and artillery attacks and a five-week
Russian push to take the city center.
At least two prominent rebel com
manders remained in Grozny with their
forces, rebels said.
It was unclear how many rebels re
mained under their command; Russian
reports estimated there were about 3,000
fighters in the capital hist week.
A large group of rebels got caught in
a minefield on the outskirts of Grozny on
Monday, and several prominenfChechen
commanders were killed or badly
wounded, witnesses said. Russian ar
tillery then opened fire on the field,
killing and wounding scores more fight
ers, they said.
Notorious Chechen field commander
Shamil Basayev reportedly had his leg
tom off*when his car w as blown up by a
mine as he escaped Grozny; he w as spir
ited away, rebels said, and his w here
abouts was unknown.
Among the Cheehen commanders re
portedly killed w ere Aslanbek Ismailov,
who had headed Grozny's defenses,
Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, and Grozny
Mayor Lecha Dudayev.
Russian commanders denied that the
rebels escaped; a main goal of the Russ
ian offensive had been to wipe out the
fighters in Grozny.
The rebels who left Grozny are ex
pected to join thousands of comrades in
the south to go on fighting.
Russian Defense Minister Igor
Sergeyev insisted Tuesday that federal
forces were successfully blocking rebels
trying to flee Grozny.
“Nobody will ever allow the rebels to
leave the city other than under a white
Hag and after laying down their
weapons," he said.
The rebels did not announce that
they had given up the fight for the cap
ital. Their strategy in Grozny was to in
flict as many losses as possible on the
Russians while avoiding heavy casual-
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until they retook the city in 1996.
Yeltsin celebrates
69th birthday
MOSCOW (AP)
— A month after
shocking Russia by
abruptly resigning,
former President
Boris Yeltsin cele
brated his 69th
birthday Tuesday
amid reports that
he i s happier and
healthier than dur
ing his final years in office.
Spending the day quietly with
family, Yeltsin received a morning
visit from acting President
Vladimir Putin, offering birthday
congratulations. Yeltsin still lives
News in Brief
in the government home near
Moscow.
Yeltsin's wife. Naina, treated
guests and her family to Siberian
dumplings and pancakes.
While Yeltsin issued no com
ment Tuesday, his wife said he is
making plans, including foreign
trips and working on a book, and
that he has not been traumatized
by retirement.
Ambassador calls
for talks with Chi-
BEIJING (AP) — The new U.S.
ambassador to China said Tues
day that the United States wants
to open wide-ranging talks with
the Chinese government on hu
man rights issues.
Joseph Prueher. speaking to
U.S. business executives in Bei
jing, said Washington welcomed
the release last week of Song
Yongyi, a librarian at Dickinson Col
lege in Pennsylvania who had been
detained in China since August.
But Prueher said a meaningful
dialogue on human rights would
have to go further.
“I think it's important that hu
man rights discussions with Chi
na not be a series of spikes, of in
dividuals. but rather a broader
dialogue where we get more philo
sophically in tune." he said to the
American Chamber of Commerce
China.
"A secure, stable and prosper
ous China is what's in the inter
ests of the United States," Prue
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