April 19, 1999

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The Mail

It is time for our Western leaders to admit that they have created a hell of a mess in Yugoslavia and don’t know what will happen next (“Going to war,” Cover, April 5). President Abraham Lincoln declared war on the southern states to prevent them from seceding from the United States.

CANADA

Looking for fathers

For the first 45 years of her life, Marjo van Tienhoven often puzzled over the differences between her two brothers, three sisters and herself. She was bookish and introspective; they were not. They, in varying degrees, resembled their father; she did not Eight years ago, she finally found out why: he was her stepfather and they were her half-brothers and sisters. By ROBERT COLLINS8 min