21.   Security Council Secretary Ivan Rybkin flew to Grozny, the shattered Chechen capital, for the talks with Maskhadov.

22.   Taliban religious police jailed a shopkeeper who sold food to a jobless woman in the shattered Afghan capital, officials said Sunday.

23.   Taliban soldiers raided the sprawling compound in the heart of the shattered capital after a guard reported Afghan women were mingling with men.

24.   The day before, the delegation had visited the shattered Chechen capital, Grozny, and a Russian detention camp where inmates allegedly have been tortured.

25.   The Grozny area was mostly quiet Saturday, one day after Russian commanders declared that the bombardment of the shattered capital would be reduced.

26.   The removal of the two generals who had commanded combat operations in Chechnya suggested government frustration over the failure to take the shattered Chechen capital.

27.   The shattered Chechen capital seems in the throes of slow-motion death.

28.   The Taliban rulers of the shattered capital blamed both attacks on their rivals, led by Dostum and deposed military chief Ahmed Shah Massood.

29.   They long for husbands and fathers left in the shattered capital of Grozny, for children sent to relatives, for pets lost or abandoned in the exodus.

30.   Truckloads of gloomy Russian soldiers poured out of the shattered capital, Grozny, and the nearby region of Vedeno.