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When the darkness swallowed her husband, all Zhang Jiaqin saw was a wisp of black smoke emanating from the ground. It could have been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment...
...handcuffed, led from the scene and later charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and illegal air activity. MACEDONIA NATO Troops Arrive Thousands of soldiers from European countries began deploying in northern Macedonia on a 30-day mission to collect arms from ethnic Albanian rebels. The disarmament plan, dubbed Operation Essential Harvest, is part of a delicate peace initiative to end seven months of hostilities along with the adoption of political reforms. Rival sides differed on the number of weapons to be collected, but reports said 3,000 had been agreed on. ISRAEL German Peace Bid An offer by Foreign Minister Joschka...
Young men and women from all over Europe headed south last week for a peculiarly Balkan harvest in the dangerous land of Macedonia. It has been a hot summer and the corn is high, but these gleaners are out for a more elusive crop: the guns of the rebel ethnic Albanians who make up the so-called National Liberation Army. No one is making plans for a bountiful autumn festival...
...Late last week and over the weekend the bulk of the 4,500-strong NATO task force dubbed Operation Essential Harvest arrived in military transport planes, making Skopje's airport bustle as it hasn't since troops moved in for deployment in Kosovo in the summer of 1999. After a short visit to Macedonia early last week, Supreme Allied Commander General Joseph Ralston reported to the representatives of NATO's 19 member countries that the level of risk was "acceptable" for the alliance to launch the operation. The German Bundestag will meet in special session this week to sign...
...just because NATO's hands are tied doesn't mean they will be able to wash them clean at the end of this autumn's Essential Harvest. The European Union is already giving "serious thought" to a bolstered observer presence to "soften the phase shift" once NATO pulls out. But no one really believes the N.L.A. is going to fade into the hills, however many guns it hands over in the coming month. Ten years in the Balkans have regrettably demonstrated the stubborn inertia of armed conflict. Just as in Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO could find the potential cost...