Show of Nerve.

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    • Subject Terms:
      MOSCOW (Russia); RUSSIA; CHECHNIA (Russia)
    • Abstract:
      Reports on the Special Forces rescue of hostages at the Melnikova Street theater in a pre-dawn raid, which ended a 58-hour standoff with a suicide squad of Chechen terrorists in Moscow, Russia. Indication that 850 adults and children were held hostage by 50 terrorists who claimed to have placed explosives around the auditorium in case of a rescue attempt; Their demand for Russia's immediate military withdrawal from Chechnya; Details of the seige in which an unknown gas was used to incapacitate the captors.