Word: bjelasnica
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...heights of Mount Igman and Mount Bjelasnica overlooking the city, Serb militiamen appeared to take heed. Making a show of fulfilling Karadzic's original promise to pull back, troops began to move off the mountainsides, accompanied by tanks, trucks and jeeps. As they left, they apparently set fire to several ski lodges. In the town of Trnovo, southeast of Sarajevo, hundreds of grimy soldiers lined up for tourist buses that would carry them away from the peaks they had captured after 10 days of heavy fighting. Some displayed the souvenirs of victory: a Bosnian flag, a helmet with an inscription...
...Bjelasnica, all covered with snow, workmen are hoisting a wheel to finish rigging a ski lift. The wind is fierce, and faces are glowing like crepes suzette. The snow blowing in the sunlight is as fine as dust. To lengthen the course a few meters, the downhill run begins inside a new restaurant adjacent to a weather station whose frozen antennas resemble the turrets and spires on an ice castle...
...Mount Bjelasnica, some 500 soldiers were packing the racecourses, stolidly enduring the 5°F cold and the eternal winds. It was a time to be philosophical; at least no one was shooting at them. In Sarajevo, members of a student volunteer brigade goofed and joked as they worked without undue haste at shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work...
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