Word: bosnian
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...helicopters lifted 60 Foreign Legionnaires and six heavy mortars off warships in the Adriatic and set them down in a heavily wooded area on Mount Igman, a strategic height overlooking Sarajevo. The platoon quickly moved into position to support a French infantry battalion that had been under attack by Bosnian Serbs...
...London about changing the system under which military commanders must in practice obtain U.N. civilian approval to use force for anything beyond shooting back when under attack. On occasion it has been particularly frustrating to U.N. and NATO officers when they wanted to call in air strikes on the Bosnian Serbs and U.N. officials refused to go along. This time, French and British military leaders argued, the rapid-reaction troops should be authorized initially by the U.N. but then be available to the peacekeeping generals to use in Bosnia as they...
...attended the meetings, they "are not going to blast their way through anything." They can fire back if fired upon, but they must not take sides. A Western diplomat who participated summed up the basic truth: "None of these countries wants to go to war on behalf of the Bosnian government...
...world's focus is turning to diplomacy. The nato allies will try to muddle through until fall, but if they truly mean it when they say the only possible solution is a negotiated one, Milosevic is inevitably the key. He represents the only evident way to pressure the Bosnian Serbs into negotiations. Right now, he is holding out for a lifting of sanctions, and the U.S. is balking. If something has to give, the sanctions regime seems...
...hurt; nothing went wrong. O'Grady and the men who saved him are genuine heroes. This vest-pocket Gulf War was in every respect the exact opposite of the conflict that gave rise to it. And for one chimerical moment, the rescue pierced the frustrations of the Bosnian conflict-where clear-cut successes, decisive actions, brilliant displays of military heroism have all been in short supply. In Bosnia, on most days, there is only murk, brutality and death...