Word: macedonia
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...bring him down to earth. The daredevil stuntman botched an attempt to land on the torch after flying his motorized paraglider across New York harbor. Once delivered into safe hands, Devaux was promptly 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...
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...
...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 off on its promised contingent...
...NATO hopes its limited action will start a chain reaction of mutual trust in a place that seems chronically inured to it. The troops have to reap enough weapons to convince Macedonia's Slavic majority that the N.L.A. is committed to the larger task of forging a political modus vivendi with the Macedonian-speaking majority. And just how many weapons would that be? Sources close to NATO in Skopje said the alliance had arrived at a "credible" goal of gathering at least 3,000 weapons in 15 designated collection points. A spokesman for the Macedonian government said it would accept...
...Slobodan Milosevic, the West has soured on any further redrawing of Balkan borders, and NATO's initial response to the Macedonian insurgency was to denounce the NLA as "murderers" and "terrorists." The guerrillas insisted, however, that they were fighting not to carve out a separate Albanian enclave in Macedonia, but to achieve greater civil rights alongside Macedonians. NATO's deployment, in support of a political deal according those rights, is, in one sense, a calling of the NLA's bluff. Then again, the risk-averse Western alliance showed little vigor in carrying out its mandate to disarm Albanian nationalist guerrillas...