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NATO planes bombed a target near Sarajevo as punishment to the Bosnian Serbs for seizing weapons from a U.N. depot. At least one antitank gun was confirmed hit, the Pentagon said. Sixteen NATO planes executed the attack, at the request of the U.N. The Bosnian Serbs apparently learned their lesson after the NATO strike and agreed to return the weapons they took. The latest attack represents a tightening of the noose around the Bosnian Serbs, who have few friends left. According to TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today enforced...
...estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...
...blockade, such as cooking oil, rice and sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal, and they own the country's main beer factory. To exploit lucrative foreign-exchange deals, two of the capital...
...Ozone Park residents rallied under the banner of the Coalition for Community Preservation and Stabilization after a 150,000-sq.-ft. store began to go up behind a row of small, Archie Bunker-type homes. The coalition claimed that Home Depot gained its building permit without having undergone New York City's Uniform Land Use Review Process. It also says the store will devote 40,000 sq. ft. of space to building materials -- far more than the 10,000-sq.-ft. maximum required by law. Jesse Masyr, counsel for Home Depot, called the charges "specious...
...citizens of Queens are getting a raw deal," says Nell Parker, a spokeswoman for Atlanta-based Home Depot. She points out that most of the coalition members are hardware-store owners and only care about saving their own businesses. "People are paying expensive prices for building materials there." Counters Brian Herman, a lawyer and hardware-store owner involved with the coalition: "Everybody knows they're out to kill the little guy. That store changes the face of the economic ecosystem for the whole community...