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...delivered into safe hands, Devaux was promptly handcuffed, led from the scene and later charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and illegal air activity. MACEDONIA NATO Troops Arrive Thousands of soldiers from European countries began deploying in northern Macedonia on a 30-day mission to collect arms from ethnic Albanian rebels. The disarmament plan, dubbed Operation Essential Harvest, is part of a delicate peace initiative to end seven months of hostilities along with the adoption of political reforms. Rival sides differed on the number of weapons to be collected, but reports said 3,000 had been agreed on. ISRAEL German Peace...
Young men and women from all over Europe headed south last week for a peculiarly Balkan harvest in the dangerous land of Macedonia. It has been a hot summer and the corn is high, but these gleaners are out for a more elusive crop: the guns of the rebel ethnic Albanians who make up the so-called National Liberation Army. No one is making plans for a bountiful autumn festival...
...Jordan recommends giving teens a modest budget for their bedrooms, with the stipulations that they can't do anything permanent or destructive. (You decide whether painting the room black meets those criteria.) If that doesn't work, author Faull advises, back off. "There is so much for teens to rebel about--their bedroom is not a battle you want to be engaged in," says Faull, who has two adult children living on their own and a teenage boy at home. When she goes into her son's room to remove hazardous waste, she looks beyond the chaos to marvel...
...which the NLA's commanders are reputedly more hard-line than some of their comrades elsewhere in the country. And the razing of a centuries-old Orthodox monastery in their zone of control earlier this week underscores the deep nationalist hatred driving at least a section of the rebel movement - after all, blowing up a church is not exactly consistent with the claim to be fighting simply for better representation of ethnic-Albanians alongside Macedonians in the country's institutions...
...murderers in the hills"; now fresh-faced young British liaison officers come calling to politely inquire, over coffee, when the guerrillas might be ready to hand over their weapons. The Skopje agreement may have been signed with the mainstream ethnic-Albanian political parties, but all eyes are on the rebel commander Ali Ahmeti and what his next move may be. The Macedonians, of course are outraged, insisting that Ahmeti is still the same man once denounced as a terrorist by NATO - a man they'd like to put behind bars or up against a wall, although they've been forced...