European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 11 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 War Moscow a Vith russian troops massed on theft Border and rus Sian warplanes in the skies Over the separatist Republic chechen military com Manders declared themselves ready for War saturday. President Fioris Yeltsin late Friday authorized the use of Force against the. Tiny Southern Republic ordering his govern ment to use All Means at the state s disposal to restore order in Chechnya and disarm illegal armed  agencies said Russia was tighten ing its blockade on the chechen Border saturday and closing off chechen air space. Inter fax said Grozny the capital was Calm though troops were on Alert and warplane had dropped a Dummy warhead into a residential District. It said a House was destroyed but there was no information on casualties. Chechen anti aircraft batteries were firing on russian planes it said but the fighters were out of Range at High Alti  the Southern russian City of Moz Dok defense minister Pavel Grachev Interior minister Viktor Erin and Sergei Yeltsin has surgery Moscow a president Boris Yeltsin was recuperating from nose sur Gery saturday and was expected to be in the Hospital for about a week a presiden tial aide said. Yeltsin s nose had been damaged in his youth and the surgery on his nasal septum the cartilage separating the nasal passages had Long been planned said Yeltsin s aide Viktor Ilyushin. The operation was Friday Ilyushin said. Stepahin chief of the Federal counterintelligence r service the Kab successor met with russian troop com Manders. ,. Mod pm is head quarters for the russian troop buildup and Servidas the staging area for a Covert opera Tion by the counterintelligence serv ice last month. Yeltsin Chechnya a mostly Muslim enclave of1.2 million people lies on Russia s Strate Gic Southern rim in the rugged caucasus Mountain sit boasts a feisty president an ancient Warrior culture one of the former soviet Union s most ruthless mafias and an abiding hatred of Russia which conquered it in the late 19th Century after a Long costly War. Chechen president a Khokhar Duday Essaid his people were determined to fight for their Independence. Islamic battalions Are forming in each Village Dunayev said in a Telephone interview with the newspaper Izvestia islamic militants from around the world instructors and fighters have joined them a. Moscow has Long condemned the Che