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This is brilliant. Les, what I wouldn't do to sneak
you into the rewrite desk at one of the major press
wire services for a week.
Could turn the world on its head.
I can imagine a few choice headlines already....
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> NATO Reluctantly Prepares to Send Troops to
> _________
>
> By ROBERT BLAWHAARD
> .c The Dis-Associated Press
>
> BRUSSELS, Belgium (June 20) - NATO agreed Wednesday
> to send troops to all
> countries in the world, in order to disarm ethnic
> rebels equipped with
> weaponry recently supplied to them by NATO.
> Intervention will take place
> only if negotiations between rebels and their
> respective government leaders
> are successful. Otherwise, invasion will be deemed
> inevitable.
>
> Prospects for an agreement, however, appeared
> doubtful in one location on
> Wednesday, as Macedonia's president, Boris
> Trajkovski, said talks between
> Slav and ethnic Albanian representatives had
> stalled. He accused the ethnic
> Albanians of trying to carve up the country. NATO
> officials expressed
> skepticism, saying that the rebels' function was
> only to destabilize matters
> sufficiently to justify NATO occupation, and
> subsequently to disband and
> prepare to compete with each other in regional mines
> for the race to the
> bottom dinar.
>
> NATO officials, wearing ski masks and speaking on
> condition of anonymity,
> said in a statement that alliance members agreed on
> a ''concept of
> confiscation'' to enable NATO to attack swiftly on
> all fronts. They said the
> alliance agreed to send brigade-sized forces to
> supervise the disarming of
> all Ultra-National Liberation Army fighters anywhere
> who agree to give up
> their weapons voluntarily.
>
> Although there have been no such offers, one
> official estimated that
> 3,000,000 NATO troops would be sufficient to effect
> the voluntary disarmament
> program.
>
> The troops would remain in the countries ''something
> like six weeks, or
> perhaps until the coming of the messiah," one
> official said.
>
> He said the alliance must now prepare a plan to
> determine the type of force
> required, and the precise number of truncheons
> involved. American and
> British troops would naturally predominate, since
> their home populations
> maintain a glazed stupor, reacting with happy
> gurgles in renewed anticipation
> of seeing the green trajectory lines of NATO
> ordinance splayed out on CNN
> screens.
>
> In the Balkans, ethnic Albanian rebels, citing the
> right to depopulate the
> region of Slavs, Jews, and Roma, have seized control
> of several villages in
> northern Macedonia, beating back government
> offensives. A shaky cease-fire
> has been in effect since last week. NATO spokesmen
> were at a loss to explain
> why NATO had thus far not employed the traditional
> response of destroying
> Macedonia's infrastructure and strafing lines of
> stragglers.
>
> However, this possibility has not been dismissed,
> since NATO members have
> ''reaffirmed the urgent need for a successful
> outcome of the political
> dialogue," a statement which invariably prefaces
> full scale NATO hostilities.
>
> ''This is a crucial week," Javier Solana told the
> foreign affairs committee
> at the European Parliament, as he examined a target
> map of strategic
> hospitals, schools and nursing homes.
>
> ''We must continue to do the utmost to avoid war in
> Macedonia,'' he said,
> unable to stifle his shark-like smile.
>
>
>
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> or otherwise shredded
> without the prior written authority of The
> Dis-Associated Press.
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