NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 26, 1996
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Chechen leader rules out peace
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The war in Chechnya ground on relentlessly yesterday as the Chechen separatists' new leader vowed revenge for the death of his predecessor and Russian planes attacked a Chechen town.
Zelimkhan Yandarbivev ruled out peace talks with Moscow until Dzhokhar Dudayev's death was avenged and the culprits found, Russian television said. He said the rebels were prepared to continue the war until Chechnya gains its freedom.
Russian warplanes continued their assault on Shali, a town 16 miles southeast of the Chechen capital Grozny.
Russian forces claim to have surrounded Chechen guerrillas in Shali. The Interfax news agency said at least one woman was killed and 29 people — including two children — were wounded in the air raid.
Russian troops in the mountains were fortifying their positions and security was being beefed up in Grozny, Russian television said.
Chechen fighters kept up their hit-and-run attacks against Russian troops in Grozny, news agencies said, and there were reports of scattered fighting elsewhere.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
the death of Dudayev, the guiding force of the separatist movement, has created new uncertainty in the 16month war.
The separatists said Dudayev was killed in a Russian airstrike Sunday and buried late Tuesday in a secret location in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains.
They claim his dying words were "not to give up our cause — bring it to an end." But some officials and analysts hope Dudayev's death might give new impetus to peace talks.
Pavel Felgenhauer, military analyst with the Russian daily Segodnya, said Dudayev's death was a boon to Russian President Boris Yeltsin ahead of the June 16 presidential elections. Confusion in the rebel camp could freeze the fighting in Chechnya, he said.
"This is good for Moscow, as the Yeltsin government has made clear its strategic objective: to keep the Checheens out of their hair until after the elections," he said.
However, the rebels appeared to be anything but con-
ciliatory yesterday.
In a move sure to enrage the Kremlin, the separatists' representative in Moscow said the hard-line guerrilla commander, Shamil Basaye, would represent the rebels if peace talks ever materialize.
Basayev led a raid on the southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk last summer in which more than 2,000 people were held hostage for almost a week.
With Dudayev gone, he is the most wanted man in Chechnya.
Report marks Chernobyl disaster
The Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine — The Chernobyl nuclear accident spewed radiation across Europe and affected millions of lives. Ten years later, a host of questions remain about precisely how the world's worst commercial nuclear disaster happened.
nuclear reactors should be shut down—immediately.
Most experts agree that several factors, from flaws in the design of nuclear reactors to the Soviet system itself, contributed to the catastrophe. But even leading nuclear physicists remain uncertain of the technical process that caused the plant's reactor No. 4 to explode on April26,1986.
Such lingering questions are precisely why many environmental activists and scientists insist that the still-operating Chernobyl plant and the world's other graphite-cooled
About 5,000 people run the plant, shuffling daily past the looming, badly cracked concrete and steel sarcophagus built to contain the ruined unit. Wind whistles through the contaminated, deserted homes that dot the surrounding pine forests.
"If it hadn't happened in 1986, it would have happened in 1987, or 1989, or 1991," said Oleksandr Smyshlayev, a Ukrainian nuclear physicist and first deputy environment minister.
Myshlayev is one of the authors of Ukraine's latest official report on the accident, released yesterday in Kiev to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the explosion.
A few basic points virtually are undisputed.
On April 26,1986, operators of reactor No.4 were preparing to test its turbines.
To conduct the tests, power had to be decreased.
The reactor grew unstable as power declined, taking the operators by surprise.
At 1:23 a.m., the test began. But the reactor still was unsteady. Water levels in the core were abnormally low, and too few control rods were in the reactor.
Steam generation began to increase, leading to a surge in power, which led to a further steam increase.
As power soared uncontrollably, an operator pressed an emergency button. In the next 20 seconds, at least one explosion occurred dispersing deadly amounts of radiation.
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