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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Friday, August 10, 2001 Hostilities Escalate in Macedonian Capital Rival forces trying to solidify positions —abie etinic ‘Albanian comm ahead of peace deal BY MISHA SAVIC ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SKOPJE, Macedonia — Ethnic Albanian rebels Thursday in an apparentbid nerival sides to buttress their positions of a peace deal meantto avert all-outcivil war. The rebels attacked a police checkpoint near the soccer stadium in Tetovo, peppering the d Bindaot oe a iceman. Government day. The insurgents did not directly take part in the negotiations andit remains: unclear whether the agreement, to be formally signed on Monday,will hold. ‘The chief of police in Tetovo, Saip Bilalli, said that fighting continued unabated into the early evening with sniper fire from both sides. Arebel eeeee ciated Press that his fighters were in Workers clean debris Thursday after protesters, reponding to an attack on forces responded with tanks and control of “half of the city,” and have Macedoni diers, shops owned ic Albanians i i ney artillery as civilians scrambled suzoundel an areiybarracks a eet ees moines mn Sie: ce: a: “Thefighting n going onall who account for about a third of necessary to regain rebel-held “Everybody is hiding in oe daylong, we'll see what happens dur- Macedonia’s 2 million people. Mace- territory. chin ments,” said Dragan Sto; tee for the Fase television star tion, KISS, police positi ing the night,”he said. The rebels have been fighting since donia’s government has repeatedly said the movement must be quashed European Union peace mediator Francois Leotard said he was cautious els} are targeting February, saying they want greater andinsisted evenafter accepting the about peace prospects in light of the rights for minority ethnic Albanians, tentative peace deal that force was escalating violence. China’s Hands-Off Policy a Sign Hong Kong Freedoms Still Intact other recent decisions, are being cited by some as triumphs for the “one country, ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG — He was two systems” arrangement set up to preserve Hong Kong’s capitalist wayoflife. bonein China. Then he did that ordinarily would have landed him back in deep trouble: he published A State Departmentreport Li Shaomin part ofChina where heliv lives is Hong Kong, and the episodeis doms remain in’ Theeoamiaitneoof f Li’s case since his return, along with to Congress, released by the U.S. consulate on Wednesday, cited Li’s return as one of manysigns that Hong Kong remains“one ofthe freestcities in Asia.” Lawmaker Martin Lee, head the political Japanese Premier’s Family Is Suddenlyin the feEI ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO— Bythe standards of tabloid TV, it was pretty tame stuff: a teen-ager separated by divorce ‘from his fa- opposition and an outspoken critic of Hong Kong's government, said it “shows that Beijing obviously sees the advantage of showing the whole world that Hong Kong should be treated separately. This is what ‘one country, two systems’is all about.” The mere fact that Hong Kong’s 6.6 million people havea legal, elected political opposition sets them apart from the communist mainland. It’salso noteworthy that Li, a U.S. scholar, was immediately given back his job as : professor marketing at Hong Kong’s City Unientty, Thedecision by the college’s executive council was unanimous. “The international community could not askfor more positive proof than this that Hong Kong’s autonomy isin good working one said the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s ain English- language daily. doesn’t intervene, the whole reer could collapse. tain and Ireland had both honedies TRA’s latest. commitments on disarmament would allow Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble to save the four-party coalition. Trimble led the coalition until resigning last month in ee test over the IRA’s refusal to disarm. The IRA issued a statement Thursday confirming thatit agreed toa confidential means for getting rid of its weapons in omen with an international di commission. But the statement aid not specify a starting date. Trimblesaid the outlawed group must begin scrapping weapons be- fore he would consider working alongside Sinn Fein. “Promises have not been kept,” Trimble said. “The only thing that would create public confidence nowis for it [disarmament] to happen.It still could happen.” ANNUAL SUMMER CLEARANCE & _ PARKING LOT SALE IN BOTH FORSEY’S PARKING LoTs! ONE DAY ONLY! mous father announces he wants little paternal bonding. But the 18-year-old with spiky blond-tinted hair mumbling into the camera was the SATURDAY, AUGUST 11TH 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi. The teen-ager says heshas:) never even met his father, and saw him only once from afar. He doesn’t use the father’s last name. 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