LEBED LAYS OUT HIS POLITICAL PROGRAM.

Having agreed tobecome vice president of the Congress of RussianCommunities, now-retired Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Lebed said thathe and his group would seek to defend “the rights ofRussians beyond Russia’s borders.” The CRC has joined theelectoral bloc headed by Yuri Skokov, a spokesman for thecountry’s military industry. On June 23, Lebed laid out hisprogram on Ostankino television: a strong military with aheavy reliance on nuclear weapons, lest other powers “wipetheir feet on us” and turn Russia into “a supplier of cheaplabor and raw materials and a waste dump.”

Ingush Attacked in North Ossetia.