Word: bela
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...Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
...vaccination has not been added to the list of those required of incoming college students by Massachusetts because the current vaccination does not prevent the vaccinated individual from being a carrier of meningitis and possibly infecting others according to Bela T. Matyas, medical director of the epidemiology program at the Mass. Department of Public Health...
Captain Muhaedin Bela, 35, could hardly believe what was happening to him. One of the most successful and hard-working ethnic-Albanian officers in the Macedonian air force, earlier this month he suddenly found himself handcuffed to a table in a dingy police station with his T-shirt looped over his head to hide the identities of his interrogators. The balding, soft -spoken native of the capital, Skopje, was being grilled by police and later by his own comrades about an alleged (and, Bela says, non- existent) connection with the ethnic-Albanian rebels fighting in the hills overlooking the city...
...What Bela recalls most about his interrogation, however, was an oddly philosophical exchange. Asked for his views of the four-month-old crisis facing the tiny Balkan nation, he answered, "In my opinion, wars could be short or they could be long. But they almost always end at the (negotiating) table." Behind his back, a police interrogator cut him off. "This is one war, " said the gruff voice, "that won't end at the table...
...Croatian descent. "Now everybody is one sided. You can see the city is empty. Albanians are on one side of the bridge and Macedonians are on the other. " In the past, he added, "we could speak about mistrust . Now it has turned into hatred." For Captain first-class Muhaedin Bela , who says he was singled out for suspicion only because he was the only Albanian commissioned officer at the strategically important air base outside Skopje, the words of his mysterious inquisitor weigh heavily. "All I can think of is what he said," Bela said this week from his cramped apartment...