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Bosnian homemaker, secret agent dies in car crash
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov-
ina — The death notice in the
newspaper was brief: "One last
goodbye to Carmen Emini Kon-
da."
It had to be that way. "There
was too much to say, so I couldn't
say anything," her husband said.
Bosnian soldier, intelligence
operative and karate aficionado.
Carmen Konda died following a
car accident late last month under
heavy Serb gunfire.
She was a homemaker who
missed her children, cooking and
dancing — one of thousands of
ordinary Yugoslavs forced by war
to do extraordinary things.
Her death was one of hun
dreds recently among the Bosnian
army, which has fought Serb
rebels since Bosnia-Herzegovina's
majority Muslims and Croats vot
ed for independence from Yu
goslavia in February.
The 32-year-old woman cut a
dashing figure among the fighters
of her team in Stup II, a western
Sarajevo suburb.
She moved daily behind Serb
lines, gathering intelligence about
enemy positions.
"Me and my boys, we crawl to
within five meters of them," she
said in an interview with The As
sociated Press early last month.
"We have to be patient. Some
times it rains shells and we just
look how to save ourselves. But
it's never boring."
Clad in camouflage or jet black
overalls, toting a Czech-made
Scorpion semi-automatic machine
pistol. Carmen was a sight among
the rag-tag forces of Bospia-
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Herzegovina.
"She was the most beautiful
woman in the world," said Atif
Saronjic, her 39-year-old husband.
"When she died, I lost every
thing."
Saronjic, a thin man with a
striking face and charcoal beard,
met Carmen late last year in the
Croatian port of Split as war in
that former Yugoslav republic
raged between Serb and Croat
forces.
"She came to my karate class,"
said Saronjic, once a member of
Yugoslavia's national team. "She
was tough, but soft. You know
that kind of combination in a
woman. We fell in love."
A former marine commando
with the Yugoslav navy, Saronjic
went to Sarajevo to help form the
defense forces of this small coun
try — sandwiched between Croat
ia and Serbia — as tensions
mounted. He had recently left his
wife, so Carmen accompanied
him.
Three sons — two his and one
hers from previous marriages —
were left with Carmen's mother
in Split.
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U.N. inspections to continue
Increased security for weapons experts follows 'no-fly' zom
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANAMA, Bahrain — Nuclear weapons experts
went to work Tuesday under tightened security in
Baghdad on the first U.N. inspection mission since
U.S.-led allies set up the "no-fly" zone in southern
Iraq.
A U.N. official, reached by satellite telephone in
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team's full day of work.
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ty, said "a lot" of Iraqi security personnel accompa
nied the team, but gave no specifics.
The 21-member team — which includes experts
from the United States France, Germany, Italy and
Poland — set out from its Baghdad hotel early Tues
day without disclosing its destination. The team re
turned at sunset.
The mission has been conducted under unusually
high security and secrecy. The United Nations
placed its workers on maximum alert after a bomb
was found attached to the car of three U.N. guards
in northern Iraq on Friday. U.S. and allied jets last
Thursday began patrolling the "no-fly" zone — the.
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Romanian orphans surviving war
by begging on streets of Bucharest
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUCHAREST, Romania — In
Bucharest's chaotic main train sta
tion, 13-year-old Andrei Bentea
has found a home begging, sniff
ing glue and sleeping on a filthy
patch of cement.
Battles over turf with other
street children have left his leg
badly scarred from razor blade
cuts. With a practiced wince, he
explains it provides "a begging
advantage" over other children,
who must fake infirmity.
Andrei fled his home in the
northwest city of Cluj just after
the December 1989 uprising that
toppled Nicolae Ceausescu and
his Communist system. He and
many children like him already
have been twisted by the poverty
and chaos Ceausescu left behind.
Tens of thousands of unwanted
children were born as a result of
Ceausescu's ban on contraception
and abortion, aimed at increasing
the country's population.
Many impoverished parents
turned them over to orphanages.
Of the 87,000 children who still
live in state institutions, most
were abandoned.
More than 1,000 children live
on Bucharest's streets, a sixth of
estimated number of homeless
children nationwide, according to
the state Adoptions Commission.
Since Ceausescu's overthrow,
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scrace. But abortions have sky
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In addition, under President Ion
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"A growing number of chil
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Rodica Mitulescu, who runs
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was allocated to create special
centers for street children. But,
acknowledged, the facilities art
very limited.
"We are ensuring protection
only to one group of kids, those
with the tiniest street experience
. . . who have a high potential fo
re-integration into society,” she
said.
Markus Heil, director of the Vi
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they are not given proper food
care or housing in state-run or
phanages.
"Orphanages are run in such a
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Candidates visit Darlington
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Stock car fans long for the
roar of the engine, the smell of burned rubber, the
flutter of the checkered flag. This year — whether
they like it or not — they're also getting the presi
dential campaign.
In the scramble to woo this year's crucial "average
guy" voter, candidates are practically bumping into
each other at the speedways.
"The NASCAR crowd is the pure definition of the
Bubba vote," said Claibourne Darden, an Atlanta
pollster who once worked for the Atlanta Motor
Speedway. "It's the middle of the middle class, the
blue collar, the lower-white collar workers. They are
the ones who elect the president."
This weekend, 95,000 people are expected to
watch the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C. And it's
likely Vice President Dan Quayle will lead the kick
off parade on Saturday, while Democrat Bill Clinton
will serve as grand marshal for the main race on Sun
day.
President Bush opened the Pepsi 400 in Daytona,
Fla., in early July and Quayle started the Diehard 500
in Talladega, Ala., later that month.
"If you got all the grease out from under the fin
ger nails of all of them, you probably couldn't fill up
a small-size thimble," Darden said of this year's can
didates, scions of family fortunes or Ivy League edu
cations or both. "But Clinton, (Democratic running
mate Al) Gore, even Quayle, certainly Bush, ought to
be at ease."
The size of the qrowd may be the big reason the
races have become a popular stopping point for
politicians.
Companies making consumer products figured
that out a long time ago. Dozens of them use the
races and the cars themselves to market their wares.
"In this day and age, they're marketing a candi
date just like Tide is marketing a product on the car,'
said Doug Jennings, a Democratic state legislator
who frequently drives the pace car at Darlington.
NASCAR's base is the all-important South, where
Democrats hope to break the Republican lock in
presidential elections.. The sport also has gained pop
ularity in key electoral states like Michigan and Cali
fornia, said Chip Williams, a spokesman for Day
tona-based NASCAR.
Jennings knows that blending the sport and
Southern politics can work. Until he found out he
was unopposed in an election last year, Jennings had
lined up driver Dale Earnhardt for a fund-raising
barbecue.
"A heck of a lot more people are likely to attend
such an event if Dale Earnhardt shows up thanifl
brought (Sen). Fritz Hollings, Al Gore or Bill Clinton
here," Jennings said.
"This is what basic America does for entertain
ment," said Warren Tompkins, a Bush aide from
South Carolina directing the campaign in the South
"That's what they like. Stock car racing, bowling,
that's what a lot of us average guys like to do when
we get time."
Doug Heyl, a Clinton campaign aide who is from
South Carolina, said too much may be made of the
strategy involved in going to Darlington. "We got in
vited and it sounded fun," he said.
Darden said visiting the stock car races presents
little risk for the candidates — as long as they don't
act too self-important.
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