11.   The numbers show that the Russian advance has hardly been a bloodless affair thus far.

12.   The Russian advance has gone slowly as Russian forces have been engaged in costly house-to-house fighting.

13.   Western observers doubt the OSCE presence would stop a Russian advance to crush the rebels.

14.   With the successful atomic bomb test, President Harry S. Truman decided at Potsdam that he could strike out on a new path to check Russian advances.

15.   Rebels slow Russian advance.

16.   A Chechen tank and forces pulling a large artillery piece headed out to stop the Russian advance.

17.   A Chechen tank and forces pulling a large artillery piece headed out to try to stop the Russian advance.

18.   Bands of Chechen fighters ran from house to house trying to halt the Russian armored advance with grenade launchers.

19.   Bands of Chechen fighters ran from house to house trying to halt the Russian armored advance with grenade-launchers.

20.   But Chechen leaders said there was heavy fighting in the face of the Russian advance.