1. Allen Clinton, a spokesman for CARE, said aid workers will be in danger until peacekeepers arrive on the scene. 2. But since the peacekeepers arrived, that distrust has only deepened as the KLA has tried to step in to become the new civil and administrative force in Kosovo. 3. But when the will is lacking, he said, peacekeepers will arrive late and be less effective. 4. He also confirmed that the lightly armed peacekeepers arrived without tanks or artillery, the kind of heavy weapons that might have cowed the guerrillas. 5. Now, a few weeks after U.N. peacekeepers arrived, life has begun to stir again. 6. Perry said the first peacekeepers could arrive in Bosnia to replace current U.N. peacekeeping troops within three weeks of any final peace agreement. 7. The peacekeepers arrived in Bosnia with an initial mandate from the Security Council to protect deliveries of food aid. 8. The refugees are reportedly being threatened and attacked by militia members who fled there as peacekeepers arrived in East Timor. 9. They hailed the Bonn agreement as a step in that direction but warned that civil war would erupt if peacekeepers did not eventually arrive. 10. A cease-fire took effect in August, and U.N. peacekeepers have been arriving since, but the fighting continues. |