Article: 3 DIE IN CLASHES WITH SOVIET TROOPS YELTSIN UNDER SIEGE RUSSIANS BRACE FOR THE WORST.(Main)

Byline: Combined wire services

While Russians by the thousands massed to act as human shields for Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, Soviet soldiers shot one person to death and crushed two others with armored personnel carriers early today, eyewitnesses said.

As the new rightist rulers in the Kremlin tightened the noose on the chief bastion of resistance, pro- Yeltsin forces - numbering 20,000 or more late Tuesday - huddled behind makeshift barricades outside Russian government headquarters and braced for what they feared would be a full-scale assault. Yeltsin, now the leader and embodiment of democratic forces in the land, awaited developments inside. ...

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