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...footage on the two videos was wobbly and out of focus, but clear enough to shock Canadians last week as they watched late-night national television news. One of the tapes showed soldiers of the elite Airborne Regiment at Petawawa, Ontario, a base 115 km northwest of Ottawa, participating in vicious and racist hazing rituals in 1992. In one scene a black recruit crawled across the ground, with symbols declaring ``I love the Ku Klux Klan'' daubed in excrement on his back. Another soldier was shown being forced to eat urine-soaked bread. The second tape depicted Airborne members...
...three-week truce in Bosnia neared the edge of collapse today, as fighting escalated in the northwest and both Bosnian Serbs and Muslims violated the terms of the agreement. Despite the Muslim government's claim that all its soldiers had been withdrawn form a demilitarized zone, U.N. inspectors found about 60 still hunkered down there. The Serbs refused to carry out their pledge to open a land route out of beseiged Sarajevo. Instead, they blocked movement of U.N. military convoys in much of the territory they control. Sunday, Serb shelling in Bihac, in northwest Bosnia, killed two teen-age girls...
Violations against the tenuous cease-fire negotiated by ex-President Jimmy Carter are serious enough to justify a special trip by Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose -- the top U.N. commander in the area -- to northwest Bosnia. Rose announced that he would fly to the Bihac region -- the site of the most serious cease-fire violations -- tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire...
French police today rounded up 40 people in connection with the deaths of 53 followers of an obscure cult whose bodies were found in Switzerland and Canada in early October. The arrests -- in Southern France, Brittany in the northwest and in the Paris area -- were made in connection with the finances of the cult, the Order of the Solar Temple. Police did not release other details, including the charges brought against them. One of those being held in the confines of a French slammer is Christian-Marie Le Gall, a doctor who shared a medical office with Luc Jouret...
Serb forces lined up their heavy guns last week and blasted their way toward Bihac, the last of the lands in the northwest held by the Bosnian government. Then Yugoslav-made jets from a Serb airbase in Croatia joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...