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To: John Hunt who wrote (32258)	4/21/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Montenegro raises stakes in faceoff with army << Montenegro raised the stakes in its confrontation with the Yugoslav army on Wednesday, threatening to dismantle a military checkpoint which has effectively blocked the border with Croatia. Tensions between the military and civilian authorities have risen sharply since the weekend, with the local administration accusing the army of committing war crimes on the border with Kosovo and denouncing its incursion on Tuesday into a demilitarised zone on its Adriatic coast. But government officials indicated that the immediate priority was to re-open the Croatian frontier, which was closed to foreigners on Tuesday by an army roadblock. It remained barred on Wednesday. ''The block will not last long because we will clear it,'' Deputy Prime Minister Dragisa Burzan told Reuters. ''First we will warn the army nicely, but if they do not move then I predict we will not be discussing things.'' >> abcnews.go.com *** Milosevic shows can destabilise Balkans << Serb clashes in Montenegro and fighting on the Albanian border are a deliberate signal from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that despite NATO bombing he is still capable of destabilising the entire region. Western officials fear he might trigger a civil war by mounting a coup in Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in the Yugoslav republic. In their nightmares, they see him ripping apart Bosnia by encouraging hardliners in the Bosnian Serb republic to secede. >> abcnews.go.com **** Looks like the next flash point to ratchet things up again. :-((

To: John Hunt who wrote (32258)	4/21/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Oak Tree	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116762

As a comment, the silver compound is no longer allowed for use at most hospitals (infection problems). The gold is used. Radioactive gold was also commonly used for some types of oral tumors and for some lymphomas. Gold seeds are sometimes used as radiographic markers implanted in the patient. This approach to radiographic marking, once common, has also gone the way of silver nitrate sticks and radioactive gold. Silver however is far from dead. Most radiography still employs film that is double sided and of course is very reliant on silver. The radiographic film industry is probably the main market for silver. Alas, digital radiology may send that the way of other precious metals in medicine.