MOSCOW SLAMS TURKEY ON IRAQ PLAN.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticized Ankara on September 7 over a Turkish plan to set up a security zone in northern Iraq. A ministry statement said the plan represents a "serious violation of the territorial integrity of a sovereign state" and called upon the Turkish government to drop it. (UPI, September 7)

Lebed Says Chernomyrdin Should Exercise Power While Yeltsin is Incapacitated.