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...year is still new, but 1996 is beginning to smell a lot like another annus horribilis for Queen Elizabeth. First there's what tabloids have dubbed the Seven Words War between PRINCESS DIANA and her sons' nanny, ALEXANDRA ("TIGGY") LEGGE-BOURKE. At an otherwise perfectly festive staff Christmas party--Prince Charles sprays Silly String on staff members, they dump glitter on him--Diana allegedly made so odious a remark to Tiggy that the nanny's lawyer sent warnings to the press not to repeat it, and the Queen had to be assured that the remark was untrue. Possibly...
...Though U.N. investigators began digging today at the site of a mass grave near the northern Bosnian town of Jajce, even Admiral Leighton Smith, commander of NATO operations in Bosnia, estimates that there may be as many as 300 such graves scattered across the war zone. Also, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Srebenican women demonstrated again in Tuzla on Friday. "It was quite violent," says Stiglmayer. "They threw rocks and broke windows of a government building." Dozens of the women, who are the wives and daughters and mothers of men missing since the Serbs overran the Muslim enclave...
...have committed most of the atrocities during the war." Manfred Novak, a U.N. investigator, will supervise digging at three sites near the central Bosnian town of Jajce, now controlled by Bosnian Croats, because unseasonably warm weather and floods have unearthed dozens of bodies in the area. Adds TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer: "The International War Crimes tribunal still plans to begin the real investigations of mass grave sites, like those around Serb-held Brcko and Srebenica, in the spring. Since the town fell relatively late in the Serb's offensive, everyone knew that they were ethnically cleansing. Most of the Croats...
...Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Glogova, Alexandra Stiglmayer/Brcko and Mark Thompson/Washington
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Sarajevo and Alexandra Stiglmayer/Tuzla,with other bureaus