31.   A Russian plane scored a direct hit on the palace, the nerve-centre of the Chechen independence drive.

32.   A year later Russian troops marched into Grozny to quell the three-year-old independence drive.

33.   Chechens and Russians have reached a fragile peace some eleven months after Russian troops marched in to quell a three-year-old independence drive.

34.   Chechnya which has been embroiled in fighting since December when Russian troops marched in to quell a three-year-old independence drive by Dudayev.

35.   The peace accord between the two sides came nearly eight months after Rusian troops marched into the breakaway republic to crush a three-year independence drive.

36.   The tiny Moslem republic was ravaged by eight months of war after Russian troops poured into Chechnya last December to quash a three-year independence drive.

37.   The troops entered the Chechen republic in December to crush a three-year-old independence drive.

38.   The village is near Tostoi Yurt, a town the Russians are using as a base for their campaign to crush the Chechen independence drive.

39.   The war began when Russia sent troops and armour pouring into Chechnya to crush a three-year-old independence drive.

40.   Thousands of Russian troops poured into the small Caucasus republic in December to crush a three-year independence drive led by Dzhokhar Dudayev.