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MACEDONIA Widening Conflict Macedonian security forces struggled to contain the insurgency by ethnic Albanian rebels as fighting spread to the center of Tetovo and the outskirts of the the capital, Skopje. Government troops shot dead two civilians in Tetovo after they appeared to hurl a handgrenade at a police checkpoint, and Macedonian artillery fire injured 10 civilians in the hills above Tetovo. Rebel leaders observed an overnight cease-fire but later injured two policemen in separate mortar and grenade attacks near the villages of Gracane and Caska. The U.S. said it would send spy planes to monitor rebel activities...
...opening scenes of Amy Wilentz's first novel, Martyrs' Crossing (Simon & Schuster; 311 pages; $24), seem transcribed from this morning's Middle East bulletins. In response to terrorist bombings in Jerusalem, Israel has barred West Bank Palestinians from entering the city. One rainy evening Marina Hajimi approaches the Shuhada checkpoint on the Ramallah road with her young son Ibrahim. He is suffering an asthma attack, and his Palestinian doctor has told her to get him quickly to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The Israeli army lieutenant in charge, Ari Doron, sees that the boy is in bad shape and frantically telephones...
...cardiologist and internationally known Palestinian advocate. The death of a little boy so prominently connected offers a chance for some effective anti-Israel propaganda. To neutralize that very thing, Colonel Daniel Yizhar of West Bank security briefs Lieutenant Doron on what will be the official army version of the checkpoint episode. The story is mostly accurate but omits, Doron notes, the long period he spent on the phone waiting for an answer. He refuses to go along. "You believe nothing bad happened," he tells Yizhar. "I believe we killed a baby...
...There were a number of worrying incidents elsewhere. A policeman was reported killed and another wounded while in a shopping mall in the capital, Skopje, on Wednesday. And two Albanians were shot this morning by police at a checkpoint in Tetovo. Apparently there's videotape of one of the men, in civilian clothing, throwing a grenade at policemen. That tape may be very important, because unless the government can show that there was a grenade, the incident may spread alarm in the Albanian community. Also, it could put more strain on the main Albanian party in the government, which...
Moakley gained power and influence in the Democrat-controlled House, reaching the pinnacle of his career as chair of the Rules Committee, a final checkpoint for all legislation. In 1989, investigations he pursued helped implicate the military of El Salvador in the murder of six Jesuit priests, a finding that dried up American military aid and hastened the end of El Salvador's civil...