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...chipped mosaics of cats and dogs in the deserted kindergarten playground, the red jungle gym and blue swings evoke the happy childhoods of the offspring of the communist Elite who once lived here. There's a vast, empty military parade ground, scores of abandoned trucks and bulldozers and barrack blocks where beds still lie made and pressed uniforms hang in closets. A few kilometers away is the laboratory, and somewhere here is buried the lasting achievement of this vanished community: weapons-grade anthrax...
...kind of superaesthetic barrack, with an in-the-know economy of style. Vintage French army blankets cover the low-to-the-ground beds, and institutional stainless-steel sinks are bolted to the wall. Floor-to-ceiling photo murals and graffiti art offer the only adornments, while a glowing white cube on the floor helps illuminate. Instead of chocolates and a Bible, the Ace offers a couple of condoms and the Kama Sutra. Most of the rooms are no bigger than they were when the Peniel Mission ran the place, but rates haven't gone up much either: prices start...
...mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded by flower beds full of dead tulips. A flagpole bears the Albanian flag...
...building, near the village of Kosare, was once an isolated Serbian army barrack. Now it is the first outpost of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army as it tries to fight its way into the province. The army has a long way to go. NATO bombing has pushed Serbian armor and artillery back two miles, but ahead of the K.L.A. lies the rolling grassland known to the Serbs as Metohija. The flatlands there are tank territory, and with no armor of their own, the lightly armed rebels cannot take and hold it. Kosare, though, is a strategic high ground...
...Thaci's AK-47 is one of the few weapons the rebels have. In other "battalions" as many as five K.L.A. soldiers will share a single weapon. It helps that when they took the barrack, the K.L.A. captured stores of ammunition, light and heavy mortars and Austrian-made trucks. But the rebel army is still struggling to get the basic supplies it needs to fight...