Indecent Proposal

WOULD YOU BOMB PART OF WHAT USED TO BE YOUR COUNTRY for, say, $1 million? Some RUSSIAN FLYERS have apparently been willing to sell their lethal skills for just a few thousand dollars. Former Soviet pilots are acting as mercenaries and flying Su-25s in sorties against positions in the republic of Georgia for a mere $5,000 a trip. The money is being paid by Abkhazian separatists trying to force Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to let their enclave become an independent state.

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ED TROYER, the Pierce County Sherrif's spokesman, on the four police officers who were shot dead in an ambush in Washington on Sunday
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