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...inthe rebels' violent march through the Muslim region. The sources told Barnes that Muslim civilians -- rather than army units -- in the town had surrendered. Speaking to diplomats in Zagreb by telephone from Washington, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, said he had "a preliminary report" that Zepa had fallen, according to the Associated Press. Under the terms of surrender, Barnes says, the Serbs will move about 30 heavily-wounded Muslim residents to Sarajevo on Thursday. Though the Serbs reportedly captured, killed or tortured men in their conquest of Srebrenica, the other "safe area," last week, they have promised...
...human spirit ranks among the most sordid legacies of world history, plantation slavery subjugated everyone, white and Black, within a racially divided and potentially explosive social prison. Whereas contemporary prison labor specifically punishes the guilty for the crimes which they committed, slavery indiscriminately shackled the innocent for having fallen into the slave-trader's custody...
...film's Malagant, who does not exist in traditional Arthurian legends, is supposedly a fallen knight of the Round Table who seeks to rule Camelot for himself...
Beyond that, Buchanan is broadening his message to court voters whose wages have stayed flat or fallen while corporate earnings and executive salaries have soared. He claims both parties are too willing to "bow down to a gold calf" of free trade, sacrificing "American jobs on the altars of transnational corporations." He wants to repeal NAFTA and GATT, end foreign aid within five years, and slap across-the-board tariffs on Japanese and Chinese goods...
Having so dramatically fallen to earth, Scott O'Grady last week was thrown into the sun. The bright, hot rays of instant fame enveloped him: newspapers put him on their front pages and magazines on their covers; he appeared on all three network morning shows the very same day; and the Clinton Administration and the Air Force exploited his pluck and Gary Cooperish innocence, determined that he be asked no questions about the confused policy that had him flying over Bosnia in the first place. When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public...