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...Existing armor-piercing bullets already are banned, but the White House says it's seeking to forestall efforts to make the ammunition with new and unregulated materials...
Even so, is the lightly armed Bosnian army really launching a thrust straight into the ring of armor the Serbs have clamped on the city? The Serbs, 12,000 strong, hold all the high ground and have hundreds of heavy artillery pieces and mortars zeroed in on approach routes. An uphill battle against the Serbs would not only produce huge Bosnian casualties but would also open the entire capital to retaliatory shelling from Serb positions. The bloodshed would be sickening, and there is no certainty the Bosnians could succeed no matter how professional their forces have become or how high...
...Antonio de Pereda (1611-78). The young Don sleeps, and an angel appears in his dream with a scroll bearing a diagram of death's arrow with the motto, "It pierces eternally, flies quickly and kills." Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only a skull...
...does raise anew the oddly unnerving specter of Carter, in his sensible shoes and armor of self-righteousness, tackling the world's diplomatic problems one by one. How does this private citizen, whose own presidency sank under accusations of weakness and appeasement, manage to make himself a force in world diplomacy...
...reward for help in finding the killers, unlikely as that is. "It could be anybody," says a U.S. intelligence official in Washington. The only certainty is that the Americans made very easy targets. Unlike U.S.-owned vehicles in other trouble spots around the globe, the van did not have armor plating or bulletproof glass, it appeared to follow the same route every morning, and the driver was not trained in ambush-escape techniques. "These folks didn't need to die like this," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official who now heads a security consulting firm. "This...