1.   Clay overlies chalk in the southern mountains.

2.   It is believed that the guerrillas have a hideout in the southern mountains.

3.   But the guerrillas will be hard to root out in the isolated southern mountains where they roam.

4.   By night in Grozny, however, and in the southern mountains, unconquered Chechen guerrillas supplied by terror networks may continue to harass and bleed the Russian occupiers.

5.   Chechen officials said they feared a big airborne operation into the southern mountain villages.

6.   However, guerrillas hemmed in to a narrow base in the southern mountains cannot control a country almost the size of Texas.

7.   It also calls for the movement of Russian troops away from the rebel strongholds in the southern mountains and toward more neutral territory in the center of the republic.

8.   Rodolfo Montiel, a farmer from this dirt-poor town up a lawless road in the southern mountains, saw the forest around him being destroyed.

9.   Snow will be steadiest over southern mountains, where moist winds from the southeast are forced to rise up the sloping terrain.

10.   While the fighting in Grozny Saturday was fierce, the Russians did better in the southern mountains.