RUSSIA HONORS FORMER TALIBAN HOSTAGES.

On the basis of a decree issued by Boris Yeltsin, on August 23 Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin presented various state awards for heroism to the seven crew members of the Il-76 cargo plane who recently escaped from more than a year of captivity in Afghanistan. (Itar-Tass, August 23)

Yeltsin’s Grandson to be Educated in England.