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Even as some hostages were being freed, 19 others were seized. About 250 U.N. peacekeepers, many of them soldiers from NATO countries, were still captives of the Bosnian Serbs, taken in retaliation for NATO air strikes on Serb ammunition dumps two weeks ago. Fighting was under way in several parts of Bosnia; Sarajevo remained without water and electricity. Relief deliveries through Serb-held territories were halted. Atop the rubble, the unpredictable Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was proclaiming that all U.N. resolutions and nato mandates were void. He was, in effect, declaring war on the world...
...Yugoslavia with a reinforced white Chevy pickup truck. This hard-shelled vehicle showed its mettle during the bombardment of Sarajevo two weeks ago. Christopher Morris, TIME's chief photographer in the region, drove it near the city's Jewish cemetery, an area that had come under heavy attack from Bosnian Serbs. He left the truck to take some pictures, and soon after, it was strafed by bullets and shrapnel -- none of which penetrated its protective layers. Morris, meanwhile, was pinned down for two hours by snipers before French troops came to his rescue. "I'd have been better...
...James L. Graff, who has moved to the Chicago bureau after three years of dangerous assignments in Bosnia. At times during his tour of duty, Graff drove through sniper fire in an unarmored "soft" car, and once he was held hostage overnight by mujahedin, foreign Islamic soldiers working with Bosnian Muslims. Says Graff: "The thing to do is make sure the risks you're undertaking are commensurate with the story you're getting. It's not a straightforward equation...
...about when and how to cover the action. "You have to rely more than anything on the reporter's common sense on what risks are worth taking," she says. "Our team, to a person, has been incredibly courageous and enterprising." She's confident that our newest recruit in the Bosnian battle zone, Calabresi, will continue that tradition. Says Attinger: "There's a great curiosity and intensity in Massimo. There's always one more thing for him to find...
...BOSNIAN SERBS UP THE ANTE...