NO EARLY WITHDRAWAL FROM CHECHNYA.

Russian interior minister Anatoly Kulikov today discounted the idea of an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. The Russian Security Council meets this afternoon to consider a peace plan for the war-torn republic. In Grozny, fighting continued yesterday during Minister of Defense Grachev’s visit to the city. (Reuter, March 14 & 15)

Talbott Departs Moscow.