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...only 17 at the time, and I had traveled to Siegel's Deli as part of a caravan of cars, a convoy of approximately a dozen hungry Jews. After gorging on scrumptious red meat, we returned to our vehicles for the drive back home. It was determined that I would ride with Stacey, a pregnant 26-year-old, whose husband had not joined us all on this particular outing. At the time, I was preoccupied with the tricky quandary of whether my girlfriend and I should stay together when we took off for college...
...Mahathir took the bold step backward of withdrawing Malaysia from the global economy, sealing off its currency from outside trade and sacking the pro-market Finance Minister. Absurdly, he also found time to attempt a world record by leading 1,998 Malaysian-made cars in the world's longest convoy...
Anita Parman, 59, is here with roughly 30 family members who look like a lost division of the convoy from The Grapes of Wrath. Dogs dive for shade under beat-up trailers, and dust-coated kids wear wet towels to beat the bastard sun. Last fall Anita got pulled over while living up north and had to cough up $1,500 for car insurance and a smog inspection, so she said the hell with that. "I'd rather get me a horse and a couple of burros and live here...
Wednesday, 12:40 p.m., the village of Junik. Holbrooke's convoy makes an unplanned stop after passing through Serb security forces guarding a nearby Serb refugee camp. Friendly Kosovar guides usher the diplomats through alleys to a walled compound, where they take off their shoes to enter a Muslim home. Holbrooke, his jacket off and his tie loosened, is introduced to Gani Shehu, 31, who identifies himself as Rugova's party leader in the village. K.L.A. "morale officer" Lum Haxhiu, 40, fondles a European assault rifle as he tells Holbrooke he was formerly a poet in Denmark. Outside, a bearded...
...impromptu press conferences to repeat the U.S. position to Kosovars: "We're trying to prevent this fighting from escalating into a general war," and autonomy, not independence, is the solution. His ability to work the media is legendary, but today false reports have gone back to Washington that his convoy has been shot at, and he has held an official meeting with the K.L.A., which would infuriate Milosevic. Standing on the runway, Holbrooke phones State Department spokesman James Rubin, catching him just before the daily briefing. The meeting with K.L.A. rebels was a "complete setup," Holbrooke insists, not an official...