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...anything, the impotence has only increased the frustration of some government officials. A spokesman for the Prime Minister this week denounced the NLA as the "Talibans of Europe," and compared their leaders with Hitler and Slobodan Milosevic. "Their philosophy - territories, ethnic entities, religion, heroin and weapons - must be cut down at the root. Europe is too narrow to be their home as well." Ordinary Macedonian Slavs in the streets of Skopje appear equally unwilling to face the possibility that the rebels, whatever their motives and however murderous their tactics, cannot be "crushed and destroyed," at least not by them. (NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macedonia: Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

...years, found to have lung cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 18, 2001 | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...brother Ramon, 36. The two baby-faced playboys head the Tijuana cartel, which sits atop Mexico's $30 billion drug-trafficking underworld and may be the most powerful organization in the country of any kind. Each year they smuggle to the U.S. hundreds of tons of cocaine, plus marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, ferried on ships, on planes and inside truckloads of legitimate merchandise. The Arellanos are thought to have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away, and that's after bribing Mexican officials, cops and generals to the tune of some $75 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: The Border Monsters | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...area around Mae Sot in Thailand's wild west is a tense mix of Thai soldiers, Burmese rebels and smugglers of jade, gemstones, heroin and amphetamines. A boxer calling himself Thai may have been born in a Burmese refugee camp and speak the language of the Karen guerrillas or the Mon tribesmen over the frontier. Crowds flock from Burma for the fights, some crossing legally at the checkpoint but most just wade across the parched Moei river. In this town of mixed allegiances and sliding identities, boxing alone provides a little certainty?without exception, every match is Thailand vs. Burma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for Their Lives | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Richard Boeken has conquered three major addictions in his life: Heroin, methadone and alcohol. It was the one he couldn?t beat that will eventually kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Money Decision Against Big Tobacco | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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