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...
Slidell Le Cotillion debutantes, escorts, family members and guests recently gathered at the home of Margie and Cary Gray for a champagne party on the eve of the group's formal presentation ball at Slidell Municipal Auditorium. Debs and escorts celebrating the get-together included Aimee Chopin and Sean Barr , Carey Coughlin and Nicholas Van Geffen , Heidi Mancuso and Jeffrey Henderson , Natalie Nunez and Walter Clement V , Rachel Schedler and Benjamin Tiblier , Kathryn Sessions and...
The possibility of seeing their loved ones and their homes proved too strong for thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees to resist yesterday as they streamed back into Kosovo despite repeated warnings of grave dangers.The flow into Kosovo from Macedonia and Albania was mirrored by the flight of thousands of Serb civilians out of the province, driven by fear of reprisals from the refugees and from the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, which for the first time is operating in the open. The roads...
In a ragged but joyous homecoming, thousands of refugees burst through the borders separating their Albanian tent cities from Kosovo yesterday, overwhelming officials who gave up trying to count them - let alone stop them. The Yugoslav army pulled its last troops out of the Kosovo capital of Pristina, and panicked Serb civilians bought and fought their way onto buses heading out of the province. U.S. Marines, meanwhile, in a tense confrontation with Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas,...