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CAMBODIA'S ELECTION IS NOT SCHEDULED TO BEGIN until May 23, but Khmer Rouge guerrillas are already casting their votes with bullets instead of ballots. Determined to scuttle the election or greatly reduce the turnout, the rebels killed more than 20 people in assaults on several Cambodian cities and brazen raids against units of the 20,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force. On Monday guerrillas wounded five Indian soldiers in Kampong Cham province and temporarily seized the airport in the city of Siemreab, home of the famed Angkor temple complex. Later in the week a Japanese policeman was killed...
...Bosnian provocation. A more likely explanation was Serbian displeasure with enforcement of the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone over Bosnia. Coinciding almost precisely with the first NATO warplane patrols, the assault had been immediately preceded by a promise from Bosnia's top Serbian commander to stop shelling. The brazen breach of trust eventually moved President Clinton to declare "outrage." His words offered little solace to Srebrenica's defenders. By early Sunday Bosnian Muslim military leaders reached a cease- fire accord with Serbian forces that provided for the safe evacuation of civilians and amounted to a surrender of the city. Speaking...
...humvee on a busy Mogadishu street and snatched the prescription sunglasses from his face last February, the 33-year-old native of Puerto Rico wheeled and shot the boy in the stomach, also wounding a bystander. He claimed self-defense, arguing that the constant threat of attack from brazen youths in the lawless Somali capital had unnerved him. A court-martial found Conde guilty of aggravated assault, stripped him of his rank and imposed a $1,706 fine. Twelve thousand U.S. servicemen remain in Somalia, though Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, who visited them last week, says most should depart...
Johnson's brazen attempt at highway robbery attracted the attention of Henry Kravis, the pixieish juggernaut from KKR, the New York City firm that had written the book on leveraged buyouts. Kravis, who months earlier had met with Johnson and discussed the possibility of taking RJR Nabisco private, was furious at Johnson for his double-dealing. With his cousin, and KKR partner, George Roberts, Kravis submitted a blow-them-out-of-the-water bid of $90 a share...
...Clown motifs, gold frogging, Tyrolean touches or military flourishes cluttered many of the outfits and seemed inappropriate for local customers who are trying to hide their wealth. In the end old masters Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre walked off with the honors -- and, by no mere coincidence, the least brazen collections...