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RUSSIAN TROOPS BESIEGE CHECHEN REBELS
Russian troops are reported to bj
bjsiiging Chjchen sjparatist fighters
in two parts of the breakaway region.
Vedeno, a stronghold of separatist
liader Dzhokar Dudayjv, and thj town of
Goskoye have been undeu attack.
But Russia's military command has said
"large-scale operations to liquidatj
fighters" weri not being carriid out.
Meanwhile, rebel leader Dzhokhar
Dudayev has rijected Boris Yeltsin'1
offir of talks via mediators and
reitdrated hi2 demand for direau t lks.
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