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>From TheIndependent (UK)
> BALKAN AFTERMATH: WAVE OF SICKNESS SWEEPS SERB TOWN MADE TOXIC BY
> NATO BOMBS
>
>
> THE ECOLOGICAL time bomb is ticking. Nobody knows when or how it
> will explode.
>
> For the moment, the visible effects are almost routine. In recent
> weeks many people in the Serbian town of Pancevo have come out in
> red blotches and blisters, after lying in the grass for a few
> minutes, for example, or after picking vegetables. Theoretically
> it could be just a common batch of allergies. But, says Zoran
> Nedic, dermatologist and secretary of the health committee in
> Pancevo, "I've never seen anything on this scale."
>
> The number of skin problems has doubled in recent weeks. Dr Nedic
> sees this as the tip of the iceberg.
>
> A United Nations mission, led by the former Finnish environment
> minister Pekka Haavisto, has been in Pancevo this week to assess
> the potentially devastating scale of the problem. Everybody in
> Pancevo, a town of 150,000, shares the fear of what they describe
> as the ekologicheska katastrofa - Nato bombing of the town has
> unleashed a poisonous cocktail of thousands of tons of toxic
> chemicals into the water, air and soil.
>
> The fertiliser factory was bombed, releasing huge amounts of
> ammonia into the air and into the Danube. The oil refinery was
> repeatedly bombed: 20,000 tons of crude oil were burnt up in one
> bombardment alone, and a cloud of black smoke hung in the air for
> 10 days. The petrochemicals factory was bombed: 1,400 tons of
> ethylene dichloride poured into the Danube, and high
> concentrations of vinyl chloride, the main constituent of PVC,
> were released into the atmosphere at more than 10,000 times the
> permitted level.
>
> And so it goes on. The official list of environmental damage runs
> to six closely typed pages, from the first bombing raid, on 24
> March, to the last, on 8 June.
>
> Each of these events separately would, in ordinary times, set
> environmental alarm bells ringing. When combined in a multiple
> cataclysm - in the early hours of 18 April, several factories
> were bombed within a few minutes of each other - the effects are
> incalculable.
>
> As Dr Nedic points out: "Never in history have a petrochemicals
> factory, an oil refinery and a fertiliser factory all been on
> fire during a single day." He predicts that cancer rates will be
> "sharply up" in the years to come.
>
> Dr Sava Stajic, of the Pancevo Society against Cancer, notes that
> cancer levels were already higher than average in the area
> because of the industrial pollution from the factories in
> previous years.
>
> But he, too, argues that there will be an "epidemic increase"
> because of the hundreds of thousands of tons of "highly toxic and
> carcinogenic chemicals" that have been released - including
> uncertain quantities of chlorine, mercury, hydrocarbons, ammonia,
> nitrogen and sulphur oxides, phosphorous compounds and hydrogen
> halides. It is a case of "name a toxic chemical, and it is on the
> list".
>
> The mayor of Pancevo, Srdjan Mikovic, deeply resents Nato's
> willingness to bomb the town without consideration for the
> effects - what he describes as "a serious intention to kill the
> town". He and the city council represent the anti-Milosevic
> opposition. But he argues that the destructive bombing of the
> town has done much to destroy pro-Western feeling.
>
> He points to a cupboard where he has stowed the British and
> American flags that he used to keep on his desk.
>
> "We received their ambassadors here. We never dreamed that these
> countries might bomb us."
>
> Certainly there can be no chance to plead ignorance of the
> implications. Many factories were built and installed by Western
> companies. After the fires, "black rain" fell on Pancevo and the
> surrounding area, covering plants with a slimy layer. There was
> an official warning against eating vegetables fresh and without
> careful washing. But most fear that the longer- term effects will
> be much more drastic than the problems of coping with greasy
> lettuce. The Danube may have been affected downstream into
> Romania. Crop changes in the surrounding area seem inevitable.
>
> The black jokes abound. How do children in Pancevo count to 30?
> By counting on the fingers of both hands.
>
> Dr Nedic argues that talk of biological change is more than just
> fantasy. "A lot of the chemicals released are not just
> carcinogens but can also cause mutation," he said.
>
> Timothy Garden, Review, page 4
>
> Chinese Embassy Attack Was CIA Error
>
> THE CHINESE embassy in Belgrade that was erroneously bombed
> during Nato's Kosovo operation was the only target of the
> conflict that was nominated by the Central Intelligence Service,
> it was revealed yesterday. Testifying before Congress about the
> most diplomatically costly mistake of the war, the head of the
> CIA, George Tenet, said that the building was thought to house a
> Yugoslav arms agency.
>
> The error was ascribed to a failure in updating by the Pentagon's
> mapping agency. However, Mr Tenet said that up-to-date maps had
> later been found at the CIA, but were not consulted by the
> military planners. Nominating a target and planning to strike it,
> he said, were two different processes, and the CIA was not
> involved in the second. Even if it had been, there is no
> guarantee the target would have been correctly identified. Mr
> Tenet said the CIA also had maps showing the Chinese embassy in
> its old location.
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> GERMANY LAUNCHES GM WINE TRIAL
>
>
> GERMANY HAS begun its first experiment in using genetically
> modified grapes to make wine, despite widespread opposition
> nationally. The government- funded Institute of Vine Cultivation
> yesterday planted about 130 grapevines near Siebeldingen, in
> south-west Germany.
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