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...such "normal duties" Lugar has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, charged with crimes against humanity. Dozens of witnesses say he committed terrible acts as platoon leader of a Serbian paramilitary unit known as the Gray Wolves. Yet today Lugar is free, if not living particularly well, back home in Kragujevac, a grimy industrial city 60 miles southeast of Belgrade...
Paramilitary units, says Seselj, knew they were doing the bidding of Milosevic, but his leadership was always cagey. He did not issue direct war commands; he merely made his "intentions" plain and "requested" that his subordinates devise ways to carry them out. "I never heard Milosevic order ethnic cleansing," says Seselj, "but I can give examples of indirect invitations to do such things." The President passed those invitations through the secret police, says Seselj. They in turn invited the paramilitaries to "liberate" areas Serbia coveted or "defend" Serb-minority towns. Seselj admits his unit fought under such directives, but says...
...January, senator Charles Robb, the Virginia Democrat, was sitting on Air Force One sipping soda with several congressional colleagues. They were flying to Bosnia with President Clinton, and the conversation turned to land mines. Robb related an experience he had as a Marine in Vietnam. His unit was escorting supply convoys passing through Viet Cong-held territory, and the mission included searching for mines by poking bayonets into any disturbed soil. One afternoon, an engineer several yards in front of Robb struck a detonator with his bayonet. "He was literally vaporized right in front of my eyes," Robb remembered...
TWISTER (opens May 10). Second-unit ingenuity spurs a destructo-fest, as naughty tornados send cars crashing and rip the roofs off barns. One suspects that, as a movie monster, this killer twister may be a dud: it has no personality and can't sneak up on you. But with the heft of Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and Jan de Bont (Speed) behind it, Twister could suck hot air and still gross a quick $100 million...
According to the 1995 Cambridge Police Department's Annual Crime Report, combating drug activity in the Area 4 neighborhood has been one of the number one priorities of the Vice/Narcotics Unit...