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...desperate acts. As a 10-truck U.N. aid convoy entered the Muslim village of Ticici in central Bosnia on its way to Tuzla last Wednesday, more than 200 residents stood waiting by the road. Someone opened fire from the window of a house at the convoy's police escort, and the villagers mobbed the trucks, grabbing for any supplies they could reach. It was the second attack in two days on a convoy in Ticici, where villagers believe they are not receiving their fair share of food...
Topics such as campus safety, abusive relationships, date rape--all these need to be addressed in this year's Take Back the Night, but the emphasis needs to be on positive change rather than on negative reinforcement. For example, the recently-created Safety Walk, the walking escort service on campus, offers a way to walk deserted streets late at night with minimal fear. In addition, Safety Walk, originally sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students, is geared to both women and men, emphasizing that safety concerns are not gender-specific...
...American community that just happens to have gambling," explains Under Sheriff Eric Cooper, who along with his boss, Sheriff John Moran, has been waging a 10-year antivice campaign. "The best thing that ever happened was when the Baptists had their convention here four years ago." The category of "Escort Services" is no longer listed in the local Yellow Pages...
...long-delayed convoy of 15 buses accompanied by a U.N. escort carried 700 people to safety from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The evacuation effort had been planned for months but was thwarted by fighting and bureaucratic tangles. Most of the refugees were Muslims, who went on to Split, Croatia; the remaining 100 were Serbs, who went to Yugoslavia...
...Final clubs] are a big issue, but it's not what I'd choose to focus on because it's reactive, not proactive," Wexler says, pointing the the group's recently formed Peer Mentor Program and fundraising for the SafetyWalk walking escort as examples of the kinds of programs RUS prides itself in supporting...