MOSCOW PREPARED TO COMPROMISE ON CASPIAN SEA.

The Russianforeign ministry told Kommersant-Daily August 30 that Moscowwas dropping its insistence on declaring the Caspian Sea a lakeand thus subject to common rather than sectoral exploitation bylittoral states. In addition, the foreign ministry spokesman saidthat Moscow was prepared to revise its 1940 agreement with Iranto bring that accord into line with the new formula. Whether Tehranwill agree or whether the foreign ministry is simply floatinga trial balloon remains to be seen.

Federal Security Service Does Not Want To Make Dudayev A Martyr.