11.   Given broad powers to end the disastrous war in Chechnya, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed wasted no time before heading to the secessionist republic.

12.   He helped oversee the disastrous war in breakaway Chechnya and took a hard line.

13.   Russian security chief Alexander Lebed, armed with sweeping new powers to end the disastrous war in Chechnya, headed for a meeting with rebel leaders Thursday.

14.   The retired general won wide respect as a top Russian commander early in the disastrous war against Chechnya.

15.   Their decision will determine whether anyone in Bosnia really believes there is an alternative to the ethnic-based politics and parties that led Bosnia into its disastrous war.

16.   Though Russia has promised to crush the rebels, it appears to be trying to avoid a larger conflict reminiscent of the disastrous Chechen war.

17.   Under attack from Moskovsky Komsomolets and other newspapers, which also blamed him for the disastrous war in breakaway Chechnya, Grachev was ousted last summer.

18.   Under international scrutiny, Bosnians started voting Saturday in nationwide elections to choose their own local governments for the first time since the years before their disastrous war.

19.   Lebed has publicly accused Kulikov of being the main culprit in the disastrous war to crush separatists in the Caucasus republic of Chechnya.