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...Croat federation, on the basis of a 49%-51% allocation of territory. Milosevic would not only recognize the union but also make certain that the peace plan is accepted by the so far intransigent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Serbia would in addition promise to seal more effectively its frontier with Bosnian Serb-held territory (an 11-month-old closure the U.N. has so far certified as essentially effective) and agree to the deployment of more U.N. monitors along the border...
last week Yugoslavia won a 75-day extension of the suspension of some sanctions, allowing international air travel as well as cultural and sports exchanges. The U.N. certified that according to its frontier monitors Belgrade has been living up to the commitment to keep all but food, clothing and medical supplies from crossing into Serb-held Bosnia; whatever leakage the U.N. detected it considered "not significant." Says a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "Milosevic closes his eyes to certain things on the border, but then it's impossible to totally close a border in the Balkans...
Civil libertarians were outraged. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, complained that the indecency portion of the bill would transform the vast library of the Internet into a children's reading room, where only subjects suitable for kids could be discussed. "It's government censorship," said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "The First Amendment shouldn't end where the Internet begins...
...test module that killed three astronauts to Neil Armstrong's buoyant lunar stroll from Apollo 11. The apogee of American know-how and teamwork, the program could, at the flick of a wrong switch, careen from triumph to tragedy. In this job, success meant you forged the ultimate frontier; failure meant you died with the whole world watching...
...game called Ooze) but left the industry deciding it had "too much gratuitous violence." The idea of gambling over the Internet came to him last year in a moment he describes as an epiphany. According to Eugene, he was "chosen" to open the first gambling den on the electronic frontier. He is convinced that in another life he was the founder of New York City's famous Stork Club...