German Escort: RESOLUTION IN THE BALKANS
BALKANS NOTEBOOK
Clinton hails church stand on Milosevic
The White House on Wednesday welcomed the Serbian Orthodox Church’s call for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to resign, but conceded that the indicted war criminal might obtain safe haven inside his own country if he steps down. David Leavy, spokesman for President Clinton’s National Security Council, said Milosevic should step aside as demanded by Serbia’s influential religious institution because he remains “an international…
German Escort: Flight Lieutenant R. A. Bethell,
Obituary
Flight Lieutenant R. A. Bethell, survivor of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III, was born on April 9, 1922. He died on February 17, 2004, aged 81.Survivor of the Stalag Luft III Great Escape, after which 50 PoWs were shot on Hitler’s order Tony Bethell was one of 76 officers who escaped through a tunnel from Stalag Luft III in Silesia, a hundred miles south-east of Berlin, on the night of March 24, 1944. This “Great Escape”, as it later became…
German Escort: Four Ordinary Men Remember When the World Held Its Breath
World War II: Fifty years after D-day, veterans–American, German and Japanese–recall a desperate time.
In June, wildflowers invade the Illinois prairie. Rose bushes explode in red along the Rhine. In Tokyo, in an old man’s garden, plums drop from their branches, a sweet springtime barrage.June brings memories too. Of another spring, when the world stood still, held its breath.Of a gray morning–just yesterday?–when an untested American lieutenant splashed ashore in France to fight for a continent, and a teen-age German corporal leaped into his boots to meet him. Of a…
German Escort: DAILY BRIEFING
THE LATEST More than 26,000 Yugoslav troops have pulled out of Kosovo in recent days, leaving around 14,000 still in the province, NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Robin Clifford said Wednesday. “Over 26,000 of the originally estimated 41,000 (Yugoslav army) forces in Kosovo have now left,” he said in Pristina, the Kosovo capital.Clifford said he was confident that the Yugoslav troops would have abandoned all of Kosovo by the Sunday deadline set under the peace deal that…
German Escort: AMERICANS, TOKYO SPAR OVER GOLD-LADEN WWII SUB
A rusting Japanese submarine carrying a fabulous treasure in gold has caused a feud between Tokyo and the Americans who discovered it half a century after a U.S. torpedo consigned it to the deep.The giant I-52 vessel sank in the Atlantic Ocean in June 1944, at the height of World War II. All 94 crew members – and more than two tons of gold destined for Japan’s wartime ally, Nazi Germany – went down, too. The following day when Allied forces searched the area thousands of miles…