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Hedges says that KLA shakedowns of merchants are the order of the day, and he describes the confiscation of one furniture merchant's car and the theft of $50,000 worth of his inventory.
And although these papers and the LAT all communicate the same basic facts about yesterday's events--that Arafat responded to Albright's demands by promising full cooperation in the fight against anti-Israeli terrorism and that Netanyahu was very cool toward her entreaties to him to cease land confiscations, home demolitions, settlement building, confiscation of IDs and the embargoing of tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian authority--their headlines differ in what they emphasize.
The Bosnia action, an assault on the Banja Luka police HQ and several other police facilities, all thought to be centers of support for war criminal suspect Radovan Karadzic against Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, met with no resistance and resulted in the confiscation of truckloads of weapons from Karadzic supporters.
The "dire consequences" spoken of earlier amount to the following: a brusquely worded note, a rude stare from a stranger, and the apparent confiscation of Harford's carnival mask, which results in a $25 replacement fee.
In the aftermath of the war, Poland was Sovietized, with the installation of a Soviet-friendly communist regime, the nationalization of businesses, confiscation of church property, and forced exile of political and religious leaders.