CONSTITUTIONAL COURT GIVES YELTSIN PARTIAL SUPPORT ON CHECHENORDERS.

The Russian Constitutional Court said that one ofYeltsin’s decrees that served as the basis for Moscow’s introductionof troops into Chechnya was "basically constitutional,"but it refused to rule on three other decrees saying that theywere outside the competence of the court, Russian media reported.The court expressed the hope that other bodies including the Dumawould examine the conduct of the war there. Former ConstitutionalCourt chairman Valery Zorkin disagreed with the verdict and arguedthat the justices had moved too quickly and "limited themselvesto the letter of the law without collecting a proper legislativebasis for making a decision."