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Show GE TY ee olcaste ibs Se ee RE aor ee gies re Pagers Sunday, Nov. 10, 1991 9A Standard-Examiner JRICE’ Angry nationalists defy Soviets Site of urirest North Ossetia. A Chechen lawmaker, Zelimkh- an Yandarbiev,said on focal television Saturday that Russian officials were considering withdrawing some seized airports, barricaded roads and blockaded Soviet troops Saturday in defiance of Boris Yeltsin’s emergencyrule in a tiny southern of the troops and noted that no sol- diers have tried to enforce the decree, Tass said. Roughly 3,000 supporters of the republic’s president, Gen. Dzhokar Dudayev, blockaded Soviet troops in the territory’s Interior Ministry building, Tass said. Another 50,000 protesters gathered in the capital’s central Free- Russian territory. The new president of secessionist Chechen-Ingush, inaugurated Saturday, defiantly vowed to “leave the totalitarian empire” of Yeltsin’s Russian Federation. The Soviet news agency Tass said Grozny, Chechen-Ingush’s capital, was “in turmoil” and events were “highly explosive.” dom Square, and the National Guard wasat the airport to keep Chechen-Ingush, a small Muslim troops from entering Grozny. autonomous republic of 1.3 million people within the Russian federation, declared itself an independent general’s uniform and making an republic a week ago. oath on the Koran, was inaugurat- No casualties were reported in the region’s growing standoff, the first serious challenge to Yeltsin and his anti-secession policy since he became the country’s most powerful leader after the August ed Saturday afternoon at Grozny’s downtown Drama Theater. “We want to leave the totalitari- putsch. Yeltsin imposed the month-long emergency rule starting Saturday, his harshest step to prevent breakup of the vast Russian republic. But he risked criticism that the action was anti-democratic. Yeltsin has said the Russian Federation, hometo scores of eth- eTaC ear Dudayev, dressed in a Soviet an empire. All the Caucasus are nic groups, must stay together if market reforms are to succeed. KGBandcther troops, number- ing up to 2,500, began arriving Friday with military equipment, said local journalists and the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. The government-run Russian Information Agency said hundreds of paratroopers were arriving Saturday in the neighboring area of ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — At Soviet plane baolies Poe Pe aT winerainyve Mi ROMANIA|_°/ Vod ing more than 170 people and forced it to fly to Ankara Saturday. fe Black Sea BULGARIA wen) Erdogan Sahinoglu, the governor of Ankara province, said two of the ’ hee ® : cxJ Hijackers’ {destination ae be TURKEY rt i “SYRIA? fh. ‘ |; ; : aom ( a NS JORDAN se EGYPT later, authorities said. mee eapl~ yy if ‘Si: SAUDI Sh ARABIA The Associated Press lowing the ceremony. Dudayev, a former Soviet air force officer elected president Oct. 27, has led the drive by dominant nationalist Chechens to break from Russian control. Citizens in Freedom Square cele- brated by shooting blanks into the were unarmed, protesters on the ‘SALES, SERVICE & INSTALLATION outskirts of the city carried hunting rifles and other weapons. at 154 West 36th St.’- North of Newgate Mall, The newly appointed Chechen | GETAI/2HP Lift-Master defense chief said his militiamen had captured 1,000 Soviet troops at the airport. But Soviet Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Vladimir Shtepa said he had received “no such information.” AT A 1/3 price Citizens used buses and cars to blockade the streets of the capital in defiance of Yeltsin’s emergency .@ FACTORY ASSEMBLED decree, which bannedrallies and ONE-PIECE imposed a curfew in the territory, about 930 miles south of Moscow. e PROMPT INSTALLATION "The militia, or national guard, has taken control ofall airfields, all highways leading to the enclave are blocked, and rail communications - have been cut, Tass reported. It said concrete blocks had been Russian Deputy Interior Minister Vyacheslav Komissarov arrived in Grozny Saturday to negotiate with Dudayev. The Chechen and Ingush people share 2 common Turkish background and were forced into the same autonomousregion in 1957. It is one of about 25 such regions in Russia. hijackers told authorities they commandeered the plane to protest the Russian republic’s crackdown in their separatist region of ChechenIngush. The Tupolev-154, which was on a domestic flight, carried 171 passengers and seven crew members, Sahinoglu told reporters. The hijackers were included among the passengers, most of whom were Chechens. A pregnant flight attendant miscarried during the hijacking and was hospitalized in Ankara, the semi-official Anatolia news agency said. The jet had been on flight from Mineralnyye Vody, a city in the Caucasus, to the Ural mountain city of Yekaterinburg, said Andrei gush, about 110 miles west of the Caspian Sea. Andreyev, director-general of the touched down it was refueled at the _ Aeroflot dispatcher’s office in Moscow. The vice president of the Rus- flight, he said. Sandwiches and tea were brought aboard also at their sian republic, Alexander Rutsko1, said in Moscow that shortly after takeoff, four men pulled out pistols and grenades and demanded the plane fly to Ankara, the capital of STEEL ENTRY DOQRS predominantly Muslim Turkey. Sahinoglu said one hijacker got off the plane along with two passengers to negotiate. According to the passengers, he said, there were possibly two or three more hijackers on board. He identified the hijackers’ 00 hijackers’ request for a return Turkish authorities said they consulted with Soviet Embassy officials before allowing the plane to return. Soviet Embassy officials also spoke with the hijackers and refused to give any guarantees they would not be prosecuted upon their return, said Ankara police director Unal Erkan. spokesman as Sait Ahmed Dovi. The same man was seen making victory signs before he returned to the plane. got off the plane told officials the hijacking was meant as a political Sahinoglu told Turkish television the hijackers wanted to fly back to Grozny, the capital of Chechen-In- nize the head of state chosen by over 90 percent of the Chechens, and the imposition of martial law.” Sahinoglu said the hijackers who protest of “Soviet refusal to recog- SECURITY DOORS | $299 INSTALLED Aboutthree hours after the plane request. The plane took off again and arrived in Grozny late Saturday, an airport official there said. BEAUTIFUL ¢ KEEP YOUR HOME SAFE 3 © QUALITY, STRENGTH, | ELEGANCE placed on the tracks. INSTALLATION INCLUDED TOUGH & DURABLE . WON'T WARP,CRACK, OR PEEL 15.52 FACTOR @ PRICE INCLUDES: COMPLETE DOOR AND FRAME, NEW DOORKNOB, TAX AND INSTALLATION. ca 392-0336 GARAGE DOORS ON SALE! | MONDAY - FRIDAY10- 6, SATURDAYS 9 - NOON Tis almost Christmas, andtime to start thinking aboutthat wonderful time ofyear. 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