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...once the heart of the Gold Rush. This August the rush has been for the exits. Stubborn forest fires swept through drought-stricken timber and brush, threatening a score of scenic small towns, once made famous by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and forcing nearly 14,000 residents to flee. Nearly 4,000 fire fighters labored throughout the week, bringing the flames under control just as another wildfire broke out in Northern California's Shasta County...
...those who live there, Bosnia is a child's worst nightmare, a land where horror is the custom. Fathers disappear. Friends die. Neighbors flee. Food is short, bombs fall and suffering is a way of life. The familiar names of cities and towns have turned into symbols of destruction, siege, massacre, "ethnic cleansing...
...most refugees, the inducement to flee is fear of imminent death. Topcagic Muharem says he is the only Muslim survivor from the village of Koritnik. On June 20, he claims, Serb militiamen herded 57 Muslim men, women and children into a basement and tossed in hand grenades, then joked that the screams of the dying sounded "just like a mosque." Ferid Omerovic, 37, is one of 9,000 from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi who reached a Croatian refugee camp in a U.N. convoy. "Life turned to hell two months ago," he says. "All Muslims were fired from their...
More than 2 million former Yugoslavs have been forced to flee for their lives in this war. They were uprooted by the atavistic policy of "ethnic cleansing" on conquered territory, enforced most fiercely by the Serbs but also by Croats and Muslims. Refugees are only a by-product in most wars. In this one they are the calculated objective. (See related stories beginning on page...
Bush looked relieved at the chance to flee Washington last week for swings into Texas and California. His speeches, forcefully delivered and with less of the mangled syntax to which Bush is prone, were generally well received. Yet bad news stuck to Bush like a cheap summer suit. In Waxahachie, Texas, he lobbied for reinstatement of the $8.2 billion superconducting-supercollider research project, which would create more than 7,000 jobs nationwide. By an awkward coincidence, however, General Dynamics had one day earlier announced that it would lay off 5,800 workers from its F-16 fighter plant in nearby...