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...have a subconscious desire to decivilize ourselves? Every generation has to rebel against the previous one, but all the good things to rebel against--the establishment of the 50s, the wide-eyed leftist political awareness of the 60s, the polyester disco-life of the 70s, the materialistic success drive of the 80s--have already been taken. Grunge-angst, having dispensed with "Greed is good" in the early 90s, now leaves the cutting edge nothing to rebel against but flannel, and what kind of a statement would that be? Nothing is left but to rebel against order itself, to embrace chaos...
...Vietnam war veteran, should make it easier to resolve cases of missing military men. Bosnian Cease-Fire Still Shaky In Bosnia the New Year's cease-fire brokered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter seemed more elastic than ever. Renewed fighting broke out in the northwestern Bihac enclave, as rebel Muslims and Serbs from neighboring Croatia battled Bosnian government forces. The new violence came just as the new British commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia, Lieut. General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations of top military...
Still, the mood in much of the state is more upbeat than it has been in months. In one of the Zapatistas' jungle strongholds, the settlement of Guadalupe Tepeyac, Tacho praised Zedillo for the sincerity of his efforts. ``The most important factor,'' said the rebel, ``was that he sent his Interior Minister as his direct representative. That shows he's taking the problem seriously.'' The Zapatistas are relatively confident that their prime demand will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent...
...Other rebel demands--like the re- negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a halt to the privatization of state industries--have less chance of success. ``There have to be great changes in this country,'' says Tacho's companion, Major Moises, an M-16 automatic rifle balanced on his lap. ``And if there's not, there's going to be war and revolution...
Moises' rhetoric is overblown: the Zapatistas are thought to have a few hundred fighters at most, and few officials in Mexico City take such threats seriously. But neither, as they struggle to cope with the wreckage of Mexico's economy, can they dismiss the Chiapas rebels as irrelevant. The best the Zedillo government can hope for is to reduce the rebels' support through continued political and economic concessions. Given the region's poverty, that could take considerable time--and funds. ``I can't deny that more roads and schools are an advance,'' says Pablo Romo, an aide to Roman Catholic...