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KAMENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Deep in a remote rural stretch of Bosnia, war crimes investigators yesterday found a tangle of buried bodies that they say are some of the 7,500 Muslim men hidden in an effort to thwart the prosecution of Bosnian Serb leaders for genocide.Investigators for the war-crimes tribunal contend that thousands of Muslims originally were buried near the Srebrenica execution sites, then dug up by earthmovers and moved to more than 10 places to hide the evidence.Exhumations in 1996 recovered 480 bodies.

A Gwynnbrook man who fell into a 20-foot deep trench while playing catch was in serious but stable condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore County police said.Police said Burt Wayne Gayleard, 19, and friends were playing with a football about 6: 45 p.m. behind Gayleard's home in the 11100 block of Reisterstown Road when he fell into the trench at a housing construction site and struck a concrete sewer pipe.The county's Advanced Tactical Rescue Team and firefighters removed Gayleard from the trench about 7: 35 p.m.Pub Date: 3/28/97

A Harford County public works employee was trapped for more than an hour yesterday when a trench at a Joppa work site caved in, the county sheriff's office said.Philip J. Hartline, 41, of Forest Hill was working on a bridge excavation project at Magnolia and Fort Hoyle roads about 3: 45 p.m. when one side of the trench caved in and partlyburied him, said Sgt. Edward Hopkins, a sheriff's office spokesman.Firefighters took about an hour and 10 minutes to free Hartline, who was being evaluated last night at Maryland Shock-Trauma Center in Baltimore.

LONDON -- Tom Fenton has been shelled by Syrians, shot at by Russians and expelled by Egyptians.But at 66, a month after undergoing angioplasty, Fenton is still chasing after bad news as the CBS News Senior European Correspondent based in London. And he has no plans to retire.Fenton is the last of a breed, a classy television journalist who looks like a diplomat, talks like a college professor and crosses a battlefield like a soldier.In an age when international events have been squeezed from the daily diet of American television news, Fenton still manages to make the most of his one-minute, 45-second reports.

There may be some things wonderful and noble and mythic about war, but you couldn't prove it by World War I.All of the evils that would eventually culminate in World War II, and many of the ills that continue to affect our world today, found their genesis on the battlefields of Europe between 1914 and 1918.That's the central theme of "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century," an eight-part opus from PBS that kicks off tomorrow night.It's also what makes the series so fascinating and genuinely worth the eight-hour investment of time.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Ravens called it a statement game, and the team may have left a favorable impression on the rest of the NFL and the country.If there were any residual effects from the team's move from Cleveland to Baltimore last year, they may have been buried at the same time the Ravens defeated the New York Giants, 37-27, before 39,799 at Giants Stadium on Aug. 10.Except for a shoddy second quarter, these hardly looked like the Cleveland Browns of a year ago that went 5-11 and lost eight of their last nine games.

After rejection from the United States military for an eye defect, Ernest Hemingway became an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in May 1918. Two months later, stationed in Italy, he was hit by fragments of an Austrian trench mortar shell. The soldier nearest him was killed. Hemingway was dragging another soldier to safety when he was injured again, this time by machine gun bullets in the knee. He spent three months in a hospital in Milan, where he turned 19, fell in love with a nurse and underwent a dozen operations to remove shell fragments from his legs and body.

Gayland Buckingham had a great fall.It took 40 Howard and Montgomery County firefighters 4 1/2 hours -- and a crane -- to pick the 375-pound construction worker up again, after he fell 8 feet into a trench yesterday on a building site in West Friendship."

After paying out more than $1.2 million in claims to 40 homeowners in a Westminster neighborhood that was damaged a natural gas explosion last winter, 16 insurance companies ++ want their money back from those they say caused the blast.The insurers of homes in Autumn Ridge filed a lawsuit in Carroll Circuit Court last week claiming that the Jan. 19 explosion -- which destroyed a vacant house and damaged more than 60 others -- was caused by negligence on the part of a Howard County company that was digging a trench for Prestige Cable Television of Maryland Inc.In addition to Reid Oliver, the subcontractor who was digging the trench that morning, and Prestige, the suit names as a defendant Maryland Underground Inc., the contractor hired by Prestige to lay television cable.

A Severn man installing a methane gas retrieval system at the Millersville landfill was trapped in a trench for nearly two hours yesterday before county firefighters were able to free him.Jerome Legrand, 38, of the 1700 block of Carriage Court in Severn was in serious but stable condition yesterday afternoon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was taken after rescue workers freed him from the 8-foot deep trench, where he was up to his knees in mud...