Organized crime has surfaced in major cities, and in outlying republics, clashes between ethnic groups or warring political factions have cost hundreds of lives.

Opponents of the action fear that a diversion of supplies to Russia will increase scarcity in the outlying republics.

Washington could prevent proliferation by negotiating elimination of the missiles in the outlying republics.

He was carrying nothing incriminating except some false papers that looked amateurishly done, but probably good enough for the outlying republics.

That could keep the missiles now based in restive outlying republics from falling into the wrong hands.

That could help assure the elimination of all nuclear arms in the outlying republics.

All short-range nuclear arms in the former Soviet Union have been moved from outlying republics to Russia for dismantling.

Here, in fact, as in most of the outlying Soviet republics, the Russians are anything but popular.

Because these outlying republics are still headed in many cases by Communist Party bosses, and because some of them have difficult ethnic problems.

Certainly, assorted nationalists now dominate half a dozen outlying republics, and Boris Yeltsin can stir the masses.