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Kanzi's most noteworthy achievement has been to demonstrate a grasp of grammatical concepts such as word order. Savage-Rumbaugh and psychologist Rose Sevcik created an extended experiment to compare the ape with a two-year-old girl named Alia in responding to commands expressed in 660 spoken English sentences. The sentences combined objects in ways that Kanzi and Alia were unlikely to have encountered before: "Put the melon in the potty," or "Go get the carrot that's in the microwave...
...largest stumbling block to a negotiated settlement remains the map of the 10 ethnic enclaves that Vance and Owen propose. Even if Bosnian President Alia Izetbegovic were to accept it, as he hinted last week, Karadzic says he will not. The patchwork state as now drawn would require the Serbs to cut back their territorial holdings from 70% to 42% and leave almost a third of all Bosnian Serbs in provinces controlled by Muslims or Croats. Karadzic vows not to surrender a single Serb village, and his militias have shown their ability to turn other villages into Serbian strongholds almost...
...into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party hard- liners are in the ascendant, and last week's crackdown could even signal a return to the bad old days of Stalinist-style repression...
Although the two major parties differ on the pace and scope of the change they hope to achieve, both say progress can come only through a market economy buttressed by massive aid from Europe and the U.S. President Ramiz Alia, head of the Party of Labor since Hoxha's death in 1985, made tentative moves toward reform early last year, when he pledged to break the stranglehold of party management and introduced limited price reforms. After a series of mass demonstrations in December, the government allowed the formation of opposition parties...
President Ramiz Alia is struggling to keep his government from suffering the same fate. Since last summer, persistent demonstrations have forced Alia to promise reforms, but they did not go far or fast enough for the students. Assuming emergency powers, Alia sent tanks into the streets to restore order. Yet he also offered fresh concessions to the protesters, including replacement of the Cabinet with a more reform-minded regime. Late last week, however, a police clash with demonstrators resulted in four deaths. Though elections set for March 31 suddenly seemed in jeopardy, the larger question was whether Alia could hang...