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...Thus the daunting challenge facing Robertson and Solana. Moreover, the initiative remains, as ever, in the hands of the guerrillas. Their strategy of seizing new territory, holding it to the point that the army threatens to turn the conflict into a full-blown civil war, and then withdrawing at the urging of alarmed NATO representatives, has moved the guerrillas inexorably toward center stage. Once decried by NATO as "murderers in the hills," they have now become a de facto negotiating partner of the Western alliance. Of course NATO isn't talking about including them in political talks just...
...Macedonian conflict borders on the absurd - at least through the prism of NATO's wishful thinking. The troubled Balkan nation appeared to accelerate down the slide towards full-blown civil war Monday as ethnic-Albanian rebels fought government forces for control over Tetovo, Macedonia's second city which is claimed as an unofficial capital by the rebels. At the same time, Macedonians driven out of their villages by rebel forces in a familiar spectacle of Balkan "ethnic cleansing" vented their rage on Western embassies - and, inevitably, a McDonalds - in the capital overnight. The facts on the ground suggest a rapid...
...NATO. After all, in most other Balkan conflict the question has been should the alliance send troops, but in Macedonia there are already considerable numbers of NATO troops - it's the logistical rear area for the entire Kosovo peacekeeping mission. So the question facing Western leaders if full-blown war breaks out will not be whether they should send soldiers, but what orders to give those who are already there...
...time: Here's a girl, get naked, hoo hoo hoo," says Opie. "It's the same midgets, the same pinheads. For today's society, you have to keep things interesting." Interesting isn't always tasteful, as when Jay Mohr, the actor, comedian and frequent guest, sang the song Full Blown AIDS, making fun of AIDS patients...
...over Asia. Calculator punchers have spent the past couple of weeks apologizing for their earlier, relatively rosy forecasts. Now they say the next six months could bring the most dismal growth since the financial apocalypse that hit the region in 1997. Singapore looks to be headed toward full-blown recession, while things in Taiwan haven't been this bad since the early 1970s. Currencies most everywhere are getting clobbered. Stock markets are comatose. And you could just about paper over Bangkok's skyscrapers with all the pink slips Asia's companies are handing out. Yet ask government officials or corporate...