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...risk of renewed ethnic war drew closer when 10 members of the Macedonian security forces were killed in an ambush by Albanian extremists. The assaults triggered retaliatory strikes by government forces, who attacked several Albanian villages with helicopter gunships and artillery. Masked ethnic Macedonian civilians, outraged at the rebel ambush, rampaged through Albanian communities smashing shop windows and beating residents - the first time civilians took to the streets since violence first erupted a month ago. The rebels say they are fighting for Albanian rights but have yet to distinguish their claims from those of existing Albanian parties already in government...
...large airlines to embrace the possibilities of the Internet, and has been the most successful major in marketing and selling tickets online. And it's on the battlefield of the Web where Southwest may make its most determined stand against its brethren. Southwest, which has maintained its rebel streak even as its grown to rival its competitors in size, has filed a lawsuit "to protect itself and its customers from potential harm." From whence the threat? A new travel website, called Orbitz, which is to Southwest the airline industry version of a nuclear weapon...
Person of the Week A SAVING FACE? Junichiro Koizumi is a sharp-dressing, head-banging, Richard Gere-coiffed rebel?and Japan's 11th Prime Minister in 12 years. Unlike his cold-pizza predecessors, he's a popular?not the pols'?choice. And he, too, could make a quick exit if he can't rev up the economy...
...once successfully defended two Black Panthers accused of killing a white policeman in Louisiana. Venable took pay from the Black Panthers, McCurdy says, and gave it to the K.K.K. But that's a long time ago now. Too long for some black residents here to worry about. Let the rebel flag fly over those graves, says Ralph Shipp. "That's all right. They are dead, and it's a thing of the past. Let's move...
...That's what the war was about, he says, that's what the flag represents, and that's why, in every issue of Southern Partisan, there's a "Confederate States of America Today" news roundup. In one issue, Missouri gets a dart because a hotel tried to have rebel flags removed during a Sons of Confederate Veterans shindig. And Trent Lott gets a nudge to enact a strong, committed, antigay agenda...