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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 2001
Page
5
Marc Ashton a Haiti-based Toyota dealer stockholder was seized by at least five abductors outside his Port‑au‑Prince mansion on Thursday. He escaped within hours, returned home, and flew to Miami with his family on Friday. Details of the ransom and escape remain unconfirmed by officials.
In Mostar Bosnia Herzegovina armed Croatian hard liners attacked NATO peacekeepers and international staff after police and troops seized Hercegovacka Banka headquarter and 10 branches. Twenty one peacekeepers including two Americans were injured along with several civilians as mobs looted the bank and smashed vehicles.
Yugoslavia aims to prosecute Slobodan Milosevic locally for corruption and abuse of power before addressing the U N war crimes tribunal. Foreign minister Goran Svilanovic says Western demands for haste are not the priority as Belgrade focuses on crime, economy, and reform amid inflation and high unemployment.
Rebels attacked a Russian military convoy on a mountain road near Vedeno Chechnya, killing 11 servicemen and wounding 12 as an armored vehicle was hit by a mine and rebels fired mortars and machine guns. Separate raids across Chechnya left additional dead and wounded. Russian air raids and artillery followed, but rebels remain rooted in the terrain.
Macedonian police rounded up 35 ethnic Albanians in a mop-up near Tetovo after clashes with government troops last month. Seventeen were released. the rest face investigations for taking part in armed rebellion as authorities push to integrate minority groups.
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