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Show 11 Sunday. August 24 2008 DAILY HERALD A2 StottaJfcroUi ' Established in 1873 A Lee Newspaper Customer Service Newsroom Bela 375-51- 03 Sandelaky THE ASSOCIATED NESS 801-344-25- Thousands POTI, Georgia of Georgians demanded that . Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to the streets in protest, while a top Russian general said his Country's farces would keep patrolling the area. The comments by deputy head of the general staff Anatoly Nogovitsyn, re- ported by Russian news agencies, showed that despite protests from the United States, France and Britain, Russia was confident enough to occupy whatever part of Georgia deemed necessary. Russian military: You are not a liberating military, you are an occupying forcer one man shouted at the Poti pro-test. Banners read Say No to War and Russia go home., On Friday, Russia said k had pulled back forces from Georgia in accordance with a cease-fir- e agreement. There are very specific requirements for Russian withdrawal Iitting up permanent facilities and checkpoints are inconsistent with the agree- ment. We are in contact with the various parties to obtain . clarification. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe aid... . FTench President Nicolas i". Sarkozys office said he had pressed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a phone conversation Saturday to quickfy remove Russian ToU free 80M804075 FAX 8014730489 . . www.heraldextra.com . . Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Bhrd, FTwo, UT Send mail to: P.Q Bax 717, Provo, UT 846030717 i- i NEWS EDITORS CoL-Ge- r h -V i V V'X : dr f , . a- - fr - rv - i-- n. V , . i.T V - rf.; . , Advertising Home delivery 375-51- 03 3736450 ri The Dally Herald (ISSN 0891-277USPS 143060) la published mornHam tUbacripUona, mtatt, dWlwy or ings, Sunday through Saturday, week-Oa1 by Lae PurifcaUont, a division of baling Information, can Lee Enterprises, Inc., 1555 N. ' Sum S a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Freedom BMh Provo, Utah 84604, sumcmption promams Periodicals postage paid at Provo, . MbAlundw Utah. Postmaster. Send address, Thur, Fit, SaUhai changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Thura On Boa 717. Provo, Utah 8460307171.: MOrM suRsanrnoMS ' ' HdMm Plainly Include delivery the week at Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Dm, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Thankiajvmt, Chriatme . and New Year1 Day. . . MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU' OF CIRCULATIONS ' Al content Copyr0it 02008, ' - M' DMITRY . Sat-Su- n Sunday On Thur, Sun Y - .. ! CLASSIFIED , Delivery by 6 a.m. Mon-F7 a.m. For missing papers, call by 9:30 a.m. - ' . Body Herald. Ary reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited without written permission. . the Georgian village ofKekhvi, tome 9 milet north of Tskhinvali, in Georgia! breakway province of South Ouetia on Saturday. Smoko rises from a fire in the West. Russia has frozen troops from an axis between the Georgian towns of Poti and its military cooperation with Senakt NATO, Moscow's Odd War Russia's pullback on Friday foe, underscoring a growing division in Europe. came two weeks to the day .. On Saturday, residents of after thousands of Russian soldiers roared into the former the strategic central city of Gori began returning. Chaotic Soviet republic following an assault by Georgian forces on crowds of people and cars ' the separatist region of South were jammed outside the city as Georgian police tried to conOssetia: The fighting left hundreds dead and nearly 160,000 trol the mass return by setting up makeshift checkpoints. people homeless. ' It also has deeply strained Those who were let through relations between Moscow and came back to find a city bat- - T 50 2m OFF i it- - jv - i M BUY ONE; 50 4 ,V' ? $ BUY ONE; '. Rtf. OFF 2NDf DniptfcMiinjfirkopMS aV girti Ml Sam radwlom aprk MwMieJwWn. -- LOVETSNVAMOCtatadPrMt tered by bombs, suffering from food shortages and gripped by anguish. . - Surman Kekashvili, 37, stayed in Gori, taking shelter in s basement after his apartment was destroyed by a Russian bomb. Several days ago, .. he tried ta bury three relatives killed by the bomb, placing what body parts he could find in a shallow grave covered by. a burnt log, a rock and a piece of scrap metaL I took only a foot and some of a torso. I could not get the other bodies out, he said. His next-doo- r neighbor, Fro-si-a Dzadiashvili, found most of her apartment destroyed, leaving only a room the size of a broom closet to stay in. I have nothing. My neigh- - : bors feed me if they have food to share, the woman said. The Russian tanks and troops are now gone from Gori but other Russian troops are just up the road at a new Rus- sian checkpoint. On Saturday afternoon, several thousand protesters waving Georgian ; flags approached the Russian position on the outskirts of GorL Some soldiers came out of their trenches, but there was : . i . BOTOlit, JilifeW-.- l 50 . nodash. Russian troops also held positions in trenches they had dug near a bridge that provides the cmly access to PotL OFF 2 . SpomwNrlnCMos bySwuyltifk. ' AmbMMLhwL StudaXStyMca, ; , OmrtMadadM. 7 - Eevrakitt VIHu rai aadltatyWims Tanks and armored personnel carriers were parked nearby; Russian troops hoisted both .. Russian flags and the flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States, or QS, the union of former Soviet republics that Georgia recently announced it had left. Emotions ran high as pro-- ' testers approached a Russian position, but direct confrontation was avoided. They have the QS flag, and .. that flag is not our Georgian .. flag,' said protester Sulkhan Tokxdava. 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WAV tC 9,tt9l keep a substantial military presence in Georgia because , of earlier peacekeeping agree- ments that ended fighting in the separatist areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the .: ,'; 1990s. But even though Poti is completely outside the buffer zone for Abkhazia, Nogovitsyn said Russian troops are not leaving and will patrol the city. Poti is not in the security zone, hut that doesn't mean that we win sit behind the fence and watch as they drive around in Hummers, Nogovitsyn said, making an acid reference to four U.S. Humvees the Russians seized in Poti this ' week. The vehicles were used in previous joint military exercises. Russian forces also set up . , a checkpoint near Senaki, the home of a major military base in western Georgia that Georgian troops retook on Saturday. AP video footage of the base Saturday showed it had .. been heavily looted. . And in South Ossetia, Russian troops erected 18 peacekeeping posts in the security zone and planned to build nether 18 peacekeeping posts around Abkhazia. A total of 2,600 heavily armed troops the Russians call peacekeepers will be deployed in those regions. Russia, Georgia and the West are certain to continue the diplomatic struggle over South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Russian parliament was expected to discuss recognizing the independence of the separatist regions Monday. In some devastated Georgian towns, the only visitors Saturday were looters, arriving in trucks and cars to take whatever they could find. . , kick indufing most 1 : . fl1 - 3E |