On the morning of the 2nd day of the difficulty, the head of the UN mission, a former president of Finland, had summoned Kosovo’s political leaders to his business office. Now the youthful customers of the Zapatista military began agitating for insurrection, and the leaders initiated consultations with the villagers. The city bulk now hardly come across what their forebears took for granted: trees, refreshing air, birdsong, silence.