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...implosion of civil authority in Somalia has created a black hole that sucks in help from the outside and crushes it before it can do much good. Convoy drivers hijack their own cargoes. Relief workers, many of them volunteers and all of them unarmed, have been subjected to death threats, shakedowns, looting and kidnapping. "To send workers out there without defending them is immoral, pure and simple," said Frederick Cuny, an American disaster-management consultant...
...vote (with only Israel and Romania supporting the U.S.) was a protest against newly toughened U.S. sanctions. At the Mexican border, the Pastors for Peace truck convoy confronted U.S. Customs officials and, eyeball- to-eyeball, the government blinked. The shipment sailed unhampered to Cuba. A second one is planned...
...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY dithered on the margins of the crisis in Yugoslavia, the anguish continued in beleaguered Bosnia-Herzegovina. An aid convoy bound for the town of Srebenica, where some 80,000 Muslims have been trapped by fighting for months, was blocked at the Serbian border for days by Serb militiamen and angry, jeering civilians. A convoy to Goradze was delayed after an escorting personnel carrier hit a mine...
...MILITANT SHI'ITE GROUP HIZBALLAH, DETERmined to do all it can to sabotage ongoing Arab-Israeli peace talks, has scored its best shot in that battle so far. Hizballah operators in Israel's self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon detonated a roadside bomb as an Israeli army convoy passed by on patrol, killing five soldiers. The blast -- and Israel's retaliatory attacks on Hizballah and Palestinian positions in Lebanon -- brought new tensions to the table as Arab and Israeli negotiators conducted their seventh round of talks in Washington...
...sticky they were. "There was absolutely no binding at all," says Anderson. A new disease had been discovered: leukocyte-adhesion deficiency. Unable to produce the CAMs that enable leukocytes to stick where they are needed, these rescue cells were sliding past Brooke's wounds like a convoy of ambulances with no brakes. "This child can't heal a paper cut," says Brooke's mother Bonnie. For now, her daughter's life remains a continuous battle against infection, though gene therapists at Baylor hope to cure Brooke by inserting into her white cells a gene for the missing...