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...plan fully public. Meanwhile, the Bosnian Serbs moved to parry the building offensive. They agreed to attend a weekend peace conference in Athens with the other parties to the Vance-Owen peace plan and said their so-called parliament would meet on May 5 to reconsider a proposed settlement. "They must do more than simply sign a peace plan," Christopher warned at his Saturday briefing. "It will take actions on the ground to convince the international community of their good faith." Yet he acknowledged privately that "if the negotiations make headway, the chance of military action will all but disappear...
...reason that Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen have been rightly criticized is that for months they staunchly opposed any military action in their quest for a negotiated settlement...
Epstein says the Middlesex court gave him a victory by ruling that Manufacturers could not dock his Harvard paycheck. He says the bank could have easily contacted him in New York. But Burdge disagrees, saying the $13,000 annual settlement will ensure the bank gets the money from Epstein even after he leaves Harvard...
Perhaps the most convincing candidate for a pre-Clovis site is Monte Verde, on the Chinchihuapi Creek in southern Chile. A team led by University of Kentucky archaeologist Tom Dillehay discovered indisputable traces there of a human settlement that was inhabited between 12,800 and 12,300 years ago. Usually all scientists can find from that far back are stones and bones. In this case, thanks to a peat layer that formed during the late Pleistocene era, organic matter was mummified and preserved as well...
...plausible places for early human settlement of the Americas, Pedra Furada, located in a region of dramatic sandstone cliffs in the arid outback of northeastern Brazil, is probably the most exciting -- and most disputed. When archaeologist Niede Guidon of the School for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences in Paris first excavated the site in 1978, she found cave paintings, ash-filled hearths and what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each...