101.   Yeltsin has maintained a public silence on the peace proposal despite increasing pressure to end the unpopular war.

102.   Yeltsin is eager to show real progress in ending the unpopular war before his presidential runoff next Wednesday with Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.

103.   However, Satarov denied accusations that Yeltsin has lost his grip on the military and lost touch with his voters over the increasingly unpopular war.

104.   The unpopular Chechnya war also exposed how little the government listens to the people.

105.   Yeltsin has been steadily gaining ground on Zyuganov in opinion polls, but the deeply unpopular Chechnya war is a major handicap in his campaign.

106.   Yeltsin wants the unpopular Chechnya war wound down by then.

107.   Yeltsin is anxious to find solutions to the deeply unpopular Chechen war ahead of presidential elections in June.

108.   Yeltsin wants to wind down the unpopular Chechnya war ahead of presidential elections next June, in which he is running again.

109.   Russian President Boris Yeltsin is anxious to extricate himself from the unpopular Chechen war before Russian presidential elections scheduled in June.

110.   The conflicting reports came in the run-up to the Russian presidential elections in June, in which the unpopular war in Chechnya has been a major issue.