AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

A youngster on the streets of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico plays with his new Christmas toy, Dec. 25, 1994. The toy is gun is a replica of an AK...

Children in the town of Morelia, Mexico look into boxes containing Christmas gifts, Dec. 25, 1994. The youngsters in the town, the site of alleged hum...

A Russian soldier gives fresh newspapers to his comarade on duty at a checkpoint on the Chechen-Ingush border on Saturday, Dec. 24, 1994. Russian troo...

Indian women from the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas carry an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dec. 24, 1994 in San Cristobal de las Casas, Me...

Hundreds of American soldiers run a 10K marathon at the U.S. Army's base Camp Democracy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 24, 1994. Soldiers also celebra...

A youngster in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, sells pencils at the town's main plaza as a troop truck unloads troops in the background, Dec. 24,...

Second Lieut. Renee Collingwood, 23, from Altus, Okla., of the 548th Maintenance Company, 10th Mountain Division, gets married via video teleconferenc...

British Cpl. James Desmond, left, from Welwyn Garden City and French Capt. Henri Lesoin from Nimes open Christmas troops??? supplies around a Christma...

A member of Lieutenant Renee Collingwood's unit sprinkles shredded paper in her hair after Collingwood got married via video teleconference with Benja...

A Mexican peasant funeral procession slowly winds down the road form Simojovel to Larrainzar, Mexico, Dec. 23, 1994. A Zapatista rebel roadblock on th...

A Russian soldier takes an improvised shower in a camp at Sleptsovskoye, Ingushetia on Friday, Dec. 23, 1994, on the border with the breakaway republi...

Sarajevan children play in the snow outside of the destroyed Bosnian parliament building along the notorious sniper alley moments after the commenceme...

U.N. chief negotiator Yasushi Akashi, left, looks on as Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, center, and Bosnian Army commander Rasim Delic, both sign...

Mexican soldiers board a troop transport truck in front of City Hall, Dec. 22, 1994, in San Cristobal de las Casas. The highland city remained calm to...

Mexican soldiers stand in a troop transport truck, Dec. 22, 1994, in San Cristobal de las Casas, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Althoug...

A Bosnian policeman blocks the area where two mortar shells hit the flea market and waits for a UNPROFOR investigation team in Sarajevo on Thursday, D...

U.N. French soldiers along with police investigate the site of the mortar attack on the flea market in Sarajevo's Old Town on Thursday, Dec. 22, 1994...

Residents of Larrainzar, Mexico cheer as Mexican Army troops arrive in Larrainzar, Dec. 22, 1994. The army is sweeping through the area where Zapatist...

An armed Russian Interior Ministry officer stops a car at a checkpoint at a ring-road in the Moscow suburbs on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1994. Interior Mini...

A Mexican soldier checks identification cards at an armed checkpoint just outside of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, Dec. 21, 1994. The road leads...

A U.N. Danish resupply convoy rolls along the infamous Sniper Alley in Sarajevo, Dec. 21, 1994. Due to Bosnian Serb heavy restrictions on the freedom...

Mexican federal police point up a hillside from where Indian peasants threw shovels, picks and a ladder at the police convoy leaving Simojovel, Dec. 2...

A Sarajevan passes by Christmas ornaments at a market, while snow falls, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1994 in Sarajevo. Elsewhere fighting has escalated in Bih...

A truckload of Mexican troops waits for orders in Simojovel, Mexico in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Dec. 21, 1994. The town was occupied briefly...

Schoolgirls in Simojovel, Mexico talk to a Mexican army soldier, Dec. 21, 1994. The army is occupying the Chiapas town which was held briefly by Zapat...

Federal police detain two suspects on the highway to Simojovel in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, Dec. 21, 1994. Police said the two were t...

A Russian serviceman, part of the estimated 10,000 to 40,000 force that has been sent to Chechnya, digs a trench shelter for troops near the village o...

Workers at the Honda of America Manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio, make final adjustments Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1994, to their 100,000th overseas ex...

Judicial police from the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas approach an abandoned Zapatista rebel roadblock, Dec. 20, 1994 near Bochil. The police...

State Judicial Police tear down a flag from the rebel Zapatista Army for National Liberation in Puerto Cate in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Dec....

A French soldier of the United Nations checks a palette loaded with Christmas trees that arrived on a British C-130 plane the first UNHCR humanitarian...

A convoy of Mexican Army troops waits near Bochil, Mexico in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, Dec. 20, 1994. The Zapatista rebels made a sho...

A Mexican army soldier with a grenade launcher waits at Bochil, Mexico in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Dec. 20, 1994. The Mexican army responded...

Part of a state-wide mobilization, Zapatista rebel troops ride atop a truck outside the rebel zone in the Lacandon forest of Chiapas, Dec. 19, 1994. R...

A Russian Interior Ministry soldier stands guard on a main road leading into Moscow early in morning on Monday, Dec. 19, 1994 in Moscow. Interior Mini...

A woman is searched before a press conference at the

A woman carries gladiolas from the main cathedral in San Cristobal De Las Casas, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. The flowers were passed...

Zapatista National Liberation Army soldiers block a roadway with rocks less than 20 miles form the city of San Cristobal de las Casas in the village o...

American volunteer John Jordan from New York, right, loads a stretcher carrying a French U.N. soldier who was wounded by Bosnian Serb grenade, into an...

A U.N. soldier and civilians seek protection behind a wall in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Dec. 18,1994 after a woman and a French U.N. soldier were wounded fro...

BBC television correspondent Angus Roxburgh and cameraman Bob Prabhu prepare their last report before leaving the Chechen capital of Grozny, Saturday,...

A Chechen separatist eats an apple some 17 miles west of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, Saturday, Dec. 17, 1994 in Russia....

French U.N. soldiers board a Russian Antonov plane, the first to land at Sarajevo airport in nearly a month, on their way to Christmas home leave, Sat...

French U.N. soldiers board a Russian Antonov plane, the first to land at Sarajevo airport in nearly a month, on their way to Christmas home leave, Sat...

Russian Interior Ministry soldiers warm their hands in front of a fire near a check point on the Chechen border near Sleptsovsk, about 18 miles West o...

A Russian soldier digs a foxhole while setting up a defensive position outside the town of Khasav Yurt, 60 kilometers (38 miles) east of Grozny, near...

Soldiers walk past a MI-26 cargo helicopter during loading operations at the Russian army base at Mozdok, 52 miles (80 kilometers) West of Grozny. The...

Haitians pray at the Saint Jean Bosco Church in Port-au-Prince on the anniversary of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's election, Dec. 16, 199...

Chechen separatist fighters, wary of sniper fire, walk towards front line positions near the village of Pervomaiskoye, some nine miles Northwest of Gr...

Shadows of a cross and passing people are cast on the Cathedral of San Cristobal de las Casas, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, Dec. 15, 1994. T...