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Show Wednesday, January 24, 1996 THK DAILY III RAI D. Hl 11 If W. By JAMES P. GALLAGHER Chicago Tribune ;, 'MOSCOW The roiides a good example of why reporting Things are never as they first appear; in fact, the truth often turns out to be the mirror image of what you'd expect, u would think that President Boris YflHin would have hit the ceilin last week when Russian forces failed to capture he leader of the daredevil Lone Wolf brigade that rocked Moscow with a humil10-da- hostage standoff in southern iating, Russia. But officials close to Yeltsin actually expressed relief that Salman Raduyev y as 4K.fl .as, w.i .S3S. hu& escaped from Pervomayskaya after Russian missiles pulverized the village. Why? Because of something called Adat, the ancient code of life and death in the Caucasus Mountains that demands blood vengeance when a relative is slain. to top Chechen Raduyev is a rebel Jokhar Dudayev. And even before the battle of Pervomayskaya, people in Yeltsin's inner circle were fretting that killing Raduyev could activate some tribal reflex and set in motion an obligation to kill the Russian leader or one of his kin. Now, with Raduyev back in Chechnya, the risk that an ancient imperative might alter the course of history has passed if such a danger ever existed. Chechens acknowledge that the com son-in-la- w ., camai Study: Stages are harmful to m. S .48 S mandment to avenge killings in kind still holds powerful sway among their proud, rugged people. At the same time, most Chechens insist that Adat doesn't mandate blood feuds , rnnnrTii in i I irTTTfrriiiiiTininniTTBTW iiiirirniiinrri tww iihtiiimim Officer after offici i insisteJ This I rt I;m. name was really equivalent of Smith. ilia! the ti nh,h' tli.iii meanei I Jo juitkyul ,i image of the enemy evpiim Russian forces h;ne been mi u- b :. . .1 i i J' U. -. iiujimis ui vvaiKin- m me inn r whieli is not Id s;iv ili:ti enclave euuinment. amateurish le:i,lei-liir- -. Ik-1- ; problems did not play the ni.tjor w As often happens in the wad.y le ''i v racism, the myth of the alm-.human Chechen foe coeisK w ith a i pletely opposite stereotype: the d (.'liedi-.-pid. cowardly, will sell out his compatriots at tin: opportunity. : -- dark-skinne- iiihi iiiwiwinniiii imi t..!i t & .P savage who fights with heroic courage, revels in treachery and doesn't know when to give up and make peace. Such a distortion of reality gives the Chechens a great psychological advantage in their David vs. Goliath struggle for independence against the Russians, who vastly outnumber them and are much better armed. In Chechnya last winter, I repeatedly encountered Russian officials and big, soldiers who tough, machinegun-totin- g refused to disclose their family names out of fear that the wily Chechens would somehow discover who they were and take revenge against their loved ones back home. with outsiders such as the Russians, so even if Raduyev had been slain last week, Dudayev and his relatives would have been under no compulsion to retaliate against the Yeltsin family. All that might be true, but many Russians are certain that the Chechens still believe deeply in an eye for an eye. Indeed, many Russians nurse a racist stereotype of what the 19th Century w riter Mikhail Lermontov once glorified as the "zloi Chechen" the evil, malicious. .., i whihih i in mn i r-- ' iancers' health .WASHINGTON (AP) J'jjireak a leg" may mean some-tfyng- .. other than good luck to dancers in some of Broadway's " when you spend $400-599.9- 9 itmiiii',iwirni'iiiiiiif-ii- hits. 'JUA medical study found the steely sloped theater stages that audiences see a musical's choreography triple the i it . ii ,i ' & "Hottest sa risk for sprains, strains tmd'&ther injuries. ijThe steepest stages are "like standing on a ski slope," said Dr. .Randolph Evans of the University fll, Texas, whose study appears in Tuesday's issue of the American journal of Public Health. ,","Eyans studied 313 Broadway performers in 23 shows, from "Les Miserables" to "Phantom of tRe Opera," and found nearly 56 fteVcSnt had suffered a performance-related injury. ""That's not surprising since they race around obstacle-strew- n stages Mi the! dark in high heels or costumes, Evans noted. But ;ivheft he checked for ways to present i those injuries, he discovered :f;;tqp risk was sloped stages. But the researcher concluded "raked stages" pose no ,heg, increased risk to actors in dramas The Actors' Equity Association pfajis ,to use Evans' data to make 'increasing raked-stag- e safety part of. its union contract negotiations lijj'spring, said representative lost- 6 .atortcfers' -- save when you spend -- $800-999.9- ' 9 $1000-1499.- save aa x 1 and had the highest slope per- centage of injuries in Evans' study. when you spend Some 88 percent of the 17 "Miss ;Sa.igon";. performers studied injuries. "Cats" was the only other play to reach the maximum ,styge, slop, and 72.7 percent of its ,22, performers studied were injured. But Evans cautioned that those ,tJ numbers are too small to draw-safet- suf-;far- ed conclusions about " , !- - ';' '' - - $2000-2399.- . SMSte save s ; n 1"when you spend I I individ- ual, plays. He is continuing his udy in London now, and hopes to 'include all the performers in about 20 plays there. Still, "we suggest set designers 'tifld 'producers stay away from conhighly raked stages,"-Evancluded. Evans decided to Venture out of his regular field of .necrology after visiting the "Miss Saigon" set and hearing perform-r,- s complain about injuries. Jf Hei decided to study all Broadway .injuries, including every who attended special cast meetings in February 1992. The of injuries was not topic jrmroli'nced before the meetings, to piinimize study bias. '! Dancers suffered 8.4 injuries per 1,000 hours of performing on fttage, mostly sprains or strains of fhe knees, ankles or feet. There were 2.8 injuries per 1,000 hours hr actors, mostly to the legs and lower back. ! Fractures accounted for less than 10 percent of the injuries, and 13 bnly performers needed liurgery. But 37 percent of dancers and !; pearly 28.8 percent of actors missed at least one performance because of injury, and 62 percent jf both groups thought their aches jiould have been prevented. no f J $1500-1999.- save N LUXJ-:- $100 kerTGreenwood. industry standard is that stlfges be sloped no more than inch per foot of stage space. The hit "Miss Saigon" has that t - x save when you spend CSfajfe -- per-"forni- er mnmmmmm BBSS; eaaiiB ,1 .m iwimijiu.v.iiwiwiiim- $979.,. a week? Invest 1 hour of your time to learn about.. t iii - mTMim tiit .- 111 111 - wurnnmri- ii! j 0U $ AOO -- 1 . X final pric I Atlantic sleeper sectional includes one-arm queen sleeper and onejrm sofa. In 9 fabric options. Reg. $1430 759 E H; f " I Thursday, January 25 1 PC Country dining se!Ll?Sn.ina't,P ,a?! C! swiveltilt armchairs on casters. 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