1.   Cubas is the target of an impeachment probe for freeing a general convicted of leading a coup attempt.

2.   Probably more important, cease-fires have freed the generals to focus state resources on saving their own skins.

3.   But loyalist troops intercepted them in the northern mountains and the general was freed, a driver of one of the cars and a top military officer said.

4.   Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov has promised to free the general, but warned Moscow against using force.

5.   Maskhadov has promised to quickly free the general, but warned Moscow against using force.

6.   Russia has threatened to use force against Chechnya if the general is not freed.

7.   The judge handling the cases against Contreras, Juan Guzman, ruled that the retired general be freed during his trial if the Santiago Court of Appeals permits.