CAUCASUS:

Six persons have been arrested in connection with the March 5 kidnapping of Interior Ministry representative General Gennady Shpigun in Chechnya. The general is still missing…. No arrests have been made in the March 19 terror bombing which killed at least fifty-one in a food market in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia. Two unexploded bombs were later discovered and disarmed in that city…. An unexploded device was found in Dagestan, on a section of the Baku-Novorossiisk oil pipeline…. Aslan Maskhadov, president of Chechnya, survived an assassination attempt on March 21. It was the fifth attempt on his life since he became president two years ago.