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Somewhere between Hawaii and Australia there is an island less than a square mile in area that contains around 500 people, one store for canned goods and no doctors...
...troops, said they would respond to any NATO airstrikes by shooting at Ukrainian peacekeepers in a base they already control. (NATO planes made a show of flying over Zepa for several hours Sunday but the U.N. has not requested their presence since.) The Serbs, who pressed to within a mile of Zepa today,plan to overwhelm the mountain enclave and then march on Gorazde, the final "safe area" in eastern Bosnia...
About 4,000 more Muslim men among at least 15,000 thought to have been captured in the fall of Srebrenica reached friendly territory in Tuzla after eluding rebel Serbs on a hazardous six-day, 60-mile trek through forests and over mountains. (A Bosnian army spokesman said some received help from the special army units.) "It was a desperate run, but we knew we would be killed or worse, otherwise," Azem Alkanovic, a 38-year-old policeman, told the Associated Press. "There were dozens and dozens of dead bodies on my trail. If you found a wounded...
Atlantis climbed quickly into a matching orbit with Mir and, over the next day or so, slowly closed a 4,000-mile gap with its target. Thursday morning, with the spacecraft 250 ft. apart and orbiting through space at 17,500 m.p.h., Gibson and shuttle pilot Charles Precourt began the delicate and risky maneuvers aimed at linking the two great ships. One careless burst of a thruster jet, and Mir's feathery solar panels could be destroyed; too forceful a bump from Atlantis, and either or both craft could be severely damaged. And if Gibson and Precourt couldn't align...
...first glance the park seems spacious enough to accommodate all comers. It covers more than 1.2 million acres and the most dramatic 56-mile stretch of the 277-mile-long Grand Canyon. But the broad vistas are deceptive. The rugged terrain funnels visitors along narrow strips of trails and roads alongside both rims and into facilities that have been overcrowded for years...