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Every segments of the Harvard community made its contribution to the was effort. The Navy Wives Club met on the "second deck" of the Harvard Union. The Fine Arts Department offered courses in camoflauge, athletics were compulsory and an air-raid siren was placed atop Widener Library...
...seemed that this time, for once, words would be matched with action. And they were, sort of, in what might be called a Balkan-style chain reaction. A heavy NATO bombing raid was swiftly countered by Serb shelling of supposed "safe areas"; that brought a second, more intense NATO bombing attack, which in turn prompted the Serbs to take more than 200 U.N. peacekeepers as hostages against still more air raids. There the explosive situation stalled, as everyone from troops on the ground to diplomats on their cellular phones teetered between the dangers of excess belligerence and empty bluster...
...Serbs retaliated by shelling five of the six U.N.-established "safe zones" in Bosnia, killing 76 people. It was the highest death toll in months and triggered a second air raid on other Pale ammunition dumps Friday that might have done serious damage: observers noted a heavy explosion and a thick column of smoke. The Serb response was to seize or detain more than 200 members of the U.N. peacekeeping force in various locations in Bosnia; some were merely kept under a sort of house arrest, but TV showed pictures of a few being held in chains at the ammunition...
...raid by the county's Asian Crime Task Force at the house and at a nearby printshop turned up the largest cache of illegal software ever discovered in the U.S., worth nearly $13 million at retail prices. By week's end investigators were still tallying the haul -- all Microsoft products, including the operating system called DOS 6.2 as well as the helper programs Windows and Windows for Workgroups. In March a similar raid in the same neighborhood unearthed about $4.7 million worth of phony software plus a supply of automatic weapons...
...Early this year, Bembry flew up to Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters, where he took a crash course in uncovering software fakery. The company sent him home not really expecting that the department's 11-man team would come close to breaking an international counterfeiting ring. But after the raid last week, Bembry and Budds had confiscated a total of $18 million in illegal software as well as $1 million in cash. They had also arrested eight suspects, and are looking for the man they believe is the ringleader of the major Microsoft-bootlegging ring. If only the folks...