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...unctuous parishioner, making a pilgrimage has always seemed to be a phenomenal waste of time. Upon hearing that the Pope was coming to Bosnia, I was at first apprehensive. The logistics of seeing the Holy Father are not simple, and he had decided to speak in Banja Luka, the capital of the Republika Srpska, a locale markedly hostile to Catholics and Muslims in Bosnia...
Planning routes is impossible here as well. Gracanica is, more or less, my homebase—a Muslim-dominated town about five minutes from the Serb-controlled area of Bosnia. But in order to get to Banja Luka and the Pope, not even the most innocuous parishioner can follow the straight-shot from Gracanica. Instead, a side-trip to find some Catholic traveling companions is necessary; in this case, I was told about the existence of a hold-out cove in nearby Dubrave. Arriving outside the supposed Franciscan monastery here, one can see a faint yellow line surrounding the area?...
...kept rebuffing me from buses that were reserved for one or another organization. Finally, I did find a bus, sat myself next to a 70-year-old woman who could not stop talking about “Papa,” and spent seven hours unconscious en route to Banja Luka...
...voice," conceded Vladimir Djeric, a top Yugoslav foreign ministry official. These are critical days for the region. While the worst of the Yugoslav wars may be over, the next two months bring a flurry of elections that will test the lingering clout of nationalists and hard-liners from Banja Luka to Belgrade. In Macedonia, where elections are set for Sept. 15, hostilities have already broken the surface calm. In the past two weeks, a pair of Macedonian police and two ethnic Albanians have been killed and five Macedonians kidnapped (and later released) in what locals believe is an attempt...
Milosevic has admitted to Western officials in the past that he was surprised and disturbed by the missiles that hit around the Serbian city of Banja Luka in 1995. "It made quite an impression," says an official. "He realizes that we could take out part of a room or a corner of a building with a cruise missile." That nervousness shows in the current negotiations over Kosovo. At one point, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke pressed Milosevic to move his army trucks in Kosovo back into garrison. "Why?" Milosevic shot back. "So your missiles can bomb them...