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...shielding and feeding innocent civilians; if they merely hunker down in the six existing misnamed safe havens, it will become impossible for them to fulfill those missions. Worse, they will continue as prime targets of the Serbs, because the Bosnian Muslims use those very same areas to rest, retrain and plan counterattacks. If, to render themselves less vulnerable, they retreat to more remote locations, they will be safer but almost wholly irrelevant-unless they become combatants, which is the last thing their governments want...
...officials said they would open a police academy -- an effort to replace Haiti's disintegrated police force. But the U.S. Justice Department says it will have to retrain members of the old police force and army, "screening" out those known to have violated human rights under the junta. Meanwhile, trouble is still afoot: U.S. Special Forces are tracking down two armed anti-Aristide bands after three rural raids turned up dozens of weapons...
...some serious policing of the streets where local forces have been told to hang back. On Thursday former New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly took charge of the 1,000-strong international monitoring force in Puerto Rico, which the U.S. is sending to Haiti to restrain and retrain local authorities: 300 monitors were to arrive by the weekend. But it will be months before the new Haitian police can be counted on to enforce civic order fairly. In the meantime, the U.S. wants to make clear that it will not tolerate mob violence, but is uncertain how to convey...
...effort on our behalf? Are more jobs a good thing or a bad thing? And how can the government be on both sides of that question simultaneously? Why create a job if this just hastens the moment when the Fed will say that's one job too many? Why retrain an unemployed worker if there's some government-imposed limit on total employment anyway? Is every welfare mother who takes a job supposed to take it away from someone else so the total of workers doesn't increase...
Barrett says he believes the most important issue this year is the Massachusetts economy, with job creation as his top priority. Barrett proposes tax credits to retrain displaced workers and help small businesses...