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To: goldsnow who wrote (6045)	4/29/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, April 25 (AFP) - A six-truck convoy carrying around 100 tonnes of Greek humanitarian aid for Kosovo arrived in the provincial capital Pristina Sunday. The convoy arrived shortly after 1:00 p.m. (1100 GMT), an AFP reporter said. It was the first humanitarian aid donated by a foreign government aimed at displaced persons inside Kosovo. Setting off from Salonica in northern Greece, the convoy was accompanied from the Macedonian border to Pristina by the Greek ambassador in Belgrade, Panayotis Vlassopoulos. The aid came after an accord between Athens and Belgrade reached during a visit by Alexis Rondos, Greece's special envoy to Kosovo, Vlassopoulos told AFP. The convoy, carrying mostly food and medicine, was taken to Pristina hospital, from where it would be distributed according to needs. Meanwhile, the Greek branch of aid organisation Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said its humanitarian convoy returned safely to Skopje Sunday after delivering supplies to Pristina.

To: goldsnow who wrote (6045)	4/30/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: Yaacov	Respond to of 17770

Today IMF approved another 4.5 billion dollar loan for Russia! The truth of the matter is that Russians think the West owe then something, which in a way is correct! For 70 years we hoped and preyed for the down fall of Communism. Our leaders made us believe that that Russian tanks were about to break through the Fulda Gap for almost 50 years! We believed that the Soviets were going to enslave us and our children, and send us all to Katurga. I don't know to what extent this notion was correct, but we beleived it. Then, all in a sudden, the Soviet empire collapsed!! I don't know if it was a good thing or bad! Did we ever thought that the Iron Curtain was not made to keep us out, it was to keep them in. Them and their problems!! As long as there was the Soviet Union, we didn't learn about Turkmans in Eshgabad that died of hunger, of Tadjiks in Dushanbe attack Uzbeks with handgrenade, it was the Soviets problem; there was a world order. I wonder what we have know! A NATO that is having trouble to find a role for itself, A Russia where the its Black Sea Fleet has only to sea worthy units, and its sailors daily food ration has been cut to two meals! (Announced today by Radio Moscow!!) so they can save money. We helped an empire (Evil according to some!) to go inot pieces. They know it! They hold us responsible, and they will be black-mailing us for the next 50 years!