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...killed. Her badly beaten body was discovered two days later in a wooded area six miles away. The public demanded that the murder be solved, and the police obliged. Du Page County residents slept a little better after police arrested Rolando Cruz, a street tough from a nearby town. Local prosecutors finished the job, presenting a solid case that landed Cruz on Illinois' death...
Even supporters admit Cruz went looking for trouble--and he found it. After the Nicarico slaying, police searched for leads in Aurora, the working-class town where Cruz lived. Perhaps prodded by a $10,000 reward, Cruz began telling wild stories. The police took him on as an informant, settling him in a witness-protection housing complex, while he told what one of his lawyers concedes were lies. "It was a big game," says Northwestern University law professor Lawrence Marshall, who represented Cruz on appeal. "Nobody's defending Rolando for playing that game, but it doesn't deserve a death...
About eight miles north of a scheduled stop in Kankakee, Ill., the 14-car City of New Orleans rolled into its nightmare. Looking toward the railway crossing at the town of Bourbonnais, the engineer saw the warning lights flashing, the barriers down--and a truck carrying 20 tons of steel halfway across the tracks. There was no way to stop. The engine plowed into the truck and then proceeded to derail, twisting like a jagged necklace, whipping the cars around and sending an engine straight into the sleeper...
...President Slobodan Milosevic refuses to withdraw troops and NATO, facing another credibility gap, sends in ground support, the real events will happen trench by trench. As field commanders on all sides make seemingly insignificant day to day decisions--where to move a group of civilians, which targets in a town will be hit first, which town to move to next--they will come to define the course of the war more definitely than the press releases from home...
...Kosovo will not depend on the guiding hand of NATO advisers, nor on the technological might its militaries have in store, nor even upon the realpolitik or game theoretic calculations of foreign policy advisors. It will be fought and decided, as war has always been fought and decided: town by town, hill by hill and house by house...