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RUSSIAN TROOPS BESIEGE CHECHEN REBELS
Russian troops are reported to be
besieging Chechen separatist fightdr1
in two parts of the breakaway region.
Vedeno, a stronghold of sjparatist
leader Dzhokar Dudayev, and thj town of
Goskoye have been under attack.
But Russia's military command has said
"large-scale operations to liquidatd
fighters" weri not being carried out.
Meanwhile, rebel leader Dzhokhar
Dudayev has rejected Boris Yeltsin'1
offer of talks via mediators and
reiterated his demand for direct t lks.
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