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...June 20, he claims, Serb militiamen herded 57 Muslim men, women and children into a basement and tossed in hand grenades, then joked that the screams of the dying sounded "just like a mosque." Ferid Omerovic, 37, is one of 9,000 from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi who reached a Croatian refugee camp in a U.N. convoy. "Life turned to hell two months ago," he says. "All Muslims were fired from their jobs, we had no money to buy food, and we couldn't get humanitarian help. Our houses were looted by Serbs -- our neighbors." He was detained...
...topping himself after four films (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands), all of them critical and popular hits -- he didn't show it. No screaming, no broken crockery. "He's the most un-Hollywood person I've ever met," says his co-producer, Denise Di Novi, who believes Burton's breakthrough came with Scissorhands, another Christmas phantasmagoria about lonely creatures making sad magic in the snow. "He connected with himself," she says, "and his art became much more intimate." Now, without Batman producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters hovering, Burton would make his own film...
...That environment was fostered by aggressive financial institutions that hyped both credit cards and personal loans. As the debt burden has increased, so have personal bankruptcies, which have more than doubled since 1985, to more than 700,000 in the 12 months ending in June. Credit Counseling Centers of Novi, Mich., which advises troubled debtors, describes its typical client as a 44-year-old male with a monthly income of $2,208 who owes 13.6 creditors an average of $2,024 each...
...total cost: $100 million. The result should be the most modern winemaking facility in Europe. No peasants crushing grapes with their feet here; everything will be stainless-steel modern. In addition, Villa Banfi has refurbished a 124-year-old winery and has begun cultivating grapes near the town of Novi Ligure in the Gavi district of Piedmont...
President Josip Broz Tito, who was staying near the coastal town of Herceg-Novi when the earthquake hit, visited the stricken area. "It was lucky it was not a working day," the 86-year-old president said. He called in his aides to assess the damage and begin organizing rescue operations...