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Signs of some suspected mine clusters can be spotted from the air by Apache helicopters. Explosive-sniffing dogs and tank-mounted rakes and rollers can help clear a path through a minefield, but many mines will have to be dug out by hand. Says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: "That's why an awful lot of soldiers have been spending a lot of time on their hands and knees learning the old-fashioned way" during training exercises in Germany. The difficulties of clearing mines are immensely multiplied if roads and fields are covered...
...ordinary Jews and Christians, it's impossible to maintain scientific detachment about ancient clay pots and fallen stones and inscriptions being dug up in the Holy Land. Hundreds of millions of people grew up listening to Bible stories, and even those who haven't set foot in a church or synagogue for years still carry with them the lessons of these stirring tales of great deeds, great evil, great miracles and great belief. Many may be able to accept the proposition that some of the Bible is fictional. But they are still deeply gratified to learn that much...
...said he found two freshly dug graves with canes, crutches and civilian jackets on the surface Serb officials later said the graves were for "fierce Bosnian soldiers." "No soldier I know needs a cane," Rohde said...
...vowed to take the territory back by force before the end of the month, when the U.N. mandate expires. The Serbs in eastern Slavonia profess to be unintimidated. "Let him come," says Slobodan Antonic, a commander of the main Serb military force there. "We have laid 250,000 mines, dug 62 miles of new trenches and built more than 100 new bunkers." Despite Tudjman's "crude saber-rattling threats," as one U.S. State Department document has called them, mediators detect a willingness to reach an agreement that would install international monitors for two years before the Croats regain control...
While in Europe, Gurwin dug into the scandalous transactions of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano, a story that in 1983 won him an Overseas Press Club Award and produced a book, The Calvi Affair. Returning to the U.S. as a free-lancer in 1988, Gurwin helped break another banking scandal, this one involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or B.C.C.I. His exposa spurred a major federal investigation and led to another book, False Profits (1992), written with Peter Truell. We persuaded him to bring his talents to TIME last June...