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...this reason that the cataloguing must continue, and at a rapid pace. The sooner the items can be returned or at least accounted for the closer a longstanding wrong against America's native peoples will come to being righted...
France and its new President Jacques Chirac show no overt indications of pique at Washington's sudden front-running role. In fact, officials in Paris take some credit for the development, pointing out that it was Chirac who pushed for a well-armed Rapid Reaction Force and urged NATO to show its muscle. "I am delighted," said Chirac, "that the Americans have become strongly involved for the past few weeks." The British were solidly behind air strikes until, as Defense Minister Michael Portillo said, "the threat to Sarajevo is lifted." Privately, London had been asking Washington to broker a local...
...power and gale-wind force. "'Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I've ever heard...he was possessed when he put that horn in his mouth," said trumpeter Miles Davis, who made about a dozen albums with him. For others it was his highly textured "sheets of sound," a rapid-fire, rhythmic attack that conjured up aural images of runaway trains, meteor showers and volcanic eruptions. Still others point to Coltrane's importance in bringing African and Eastern influences to jazz and helping bridge the worlds of jazz and experimental avant-garde music...
When the response finally came, however, it was just what NATO had threatened. Shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday, the first sortie of planes began bombing Bosnian Serb positions around Sarajevo. Artillery units of the rapid-reaction force, a multinational contingent assigned to protect U.N. convoys and peacekeepers, joined the attack. nato planes also struck Bosnian Serb targets near Gorazde and Tuzla, two other U.N. "safe areas." The warplanes focused first on the Bosnian Serbs' sophisticated air-defense network. Then they turned to ammunition depots and factories in Lukavica and Vogosca, surface-to-air missile sites throughout Bosnia, and the Bosnian...
...that gave local authorities enormous power over resources, as well as the implied right to contravene federal regulations protecting ecosystems. Nonetheless, it was thought that the strong central government could still maintain the balance of power. Then came the August 1991 attempted coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev and the rapid unraveling of Soviet authority. With no federal checks on local power, according to Yablokov, these laws became the legal basis for the devastation of natural resources. Local politicians are quite happy with this situation because it gives them a free hand to turn a profit...