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...reliable numbers, it is not numbers but images that give "collateral damage" incidents their power to affect the course of war: the young Vietnamese girl, her skin burned away by napalm, running down a street; the corpses of Iraqi women killed in a bomb shelter; bodies strewn around a Yugoslav passenger train struck by a NATO rocket, and so on. Already Al Jezeera, the only TV network with a bureau in Kabul, is carrying images of the broken bodies of civilian casualties. And on the Internet, ordinary citizens are able to see the latest photographs posted by the wire services...
...Winners RONALD REAGAN Ex-Prez hits 90, beating John Adams to become longest-living former U.S. chief exec. Wife Nancy holds record for stiffest First Lady hairdo BORA MILUTINOVIC China's Yugoslav coach takes his fifth team in a row to the World Cup. The squad will also likely be his fifth team in a row to exit early BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG Smelly, destructive beetle native to China invades Pennsylvania. Possible U.S. response: sending Senator Arlen Specter to China...
...homecoming. Experts will examine the Kursk in dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, to establish how the submarine foundered. Officials are taking no chances that radiation from the sub?s two 190-megawatt nuclear reactors will leak out or that its 22 Granit cruise missiles will accidentally detonate. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes during the war in Croatia. The indictment cites 32 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the "ethnic cleansing" of Croatia between August 1991 and June 1992. ITALY Milan Runway Crash In thick fog at Milan?s Linate Airport, a Cessna light aircraft strayed...
...NETHERLANDS Genocide Charge Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic made a second defiant appearance before the U.N. war crimes tribunal as chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said charges against him would include genocide. Milosevic currently faces four charges of crimes against humanity arising from the Kosovo conflict in 1999. Del Ponte said additional charges of genocide in Bosnia and war crimes in Croatia would be brought against him in October. A Dutch court rejected a claim by Milosevic that his detention was illegal...
NATO on Friday begins its most dangerous Balkan mission yet. But the danger facing the Western alliance in Macedonia is less physical than political. Some 400 British troops are due to be deployed in the former Yugoslav nation in advance of an eventual 3,500-troop contingent whose mission, innocuously dubbed "Operation Essential Harvest," involves collecting and destroying weapons voluntarily tendered by ethnic-Albanian guerrillas. They're not there to disarm anyone, NATO spokesmen insist, and they'll stay only 30 days. If the guerrillas choose to hang onto their weapons and the fighting starts up again, the Western troops...