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...education and public symbols for the Albanians are supposed to be completed by September 27, about the same time that the NATO task force pulls out. Many Balkan experts, including former Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark, have expressed severe doubts that NATO's limited engagement will be enough to quell the distrust and stanch the violence. Says Mark Thompson, Balkan analyst for the International Crisis Group in Brussels: "You can be pretty sure that any voluntary disarmament isn't going to convince the [Macedonian Slavs] that the N.L.A. threat is over...
...Palestinian guerrillas infiltrating a military outpost in Gaza and killing three soldiers. Israel responding with air power and tank artillery, then assassinating a key radical Palestinian leader a day later. Intense Palestinian small arms and mortar fire across a wide front, and then Israel sending in armored columns to quell that fire...
...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
...Hoping to quell criticism
...even the replacement of a significant portion of the departments staff was unable to quell tensions between Phelan and the department’s staff or to solve the administrative problems. Phelan’s prolongued absences from campus and her negative attitude towards the administration and some of her colleagues surely intensified the discord both within the department and with the Faculty. Phelan’s actions were disrespectful and unbecoming of the chair, and they compromised the ability of the VES department to implement her vision...