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...keeping with the terms of thetruce signed on December 31, Bosnian Serbs agreed to end the blockade of Sarajevo this week, allowing food and supplies to reach its residents freely for the first time in months. The four-month old cease-fire now is holding for most of Bosnia with the sole exception of Bihac, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslim leaders continue to shell government-held areas. Sarajevo has been closed to civilian traffic since July...
...diversity. Those who stood on the Widener steps in December to cheer the words of Professor David Mitten as he denounced the attacks on Muslims in Bosnia should, to be consistent, be among the first to speak out on behalf of HCIA. If one stands in solidarity with the Bosnian Muslims across the ocean, then in principle one should not remain silent when basic rights are being denied in one's own backyard...
...Bihac region -- the site of the most serious cease-fire violations -- tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire as they negotiate a four-month truce...
...discussed it every day," recalls Navarro. "There were real security questions -- not just for the Pope but for the people. But he wanted to go very badly." Less than a week before the trip, the Vatican received a veiled threat from Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader. "His message was full of trickery," says Navarro. "He told us in effect, 'I have no problem with the trip, but what if the Muslims attempted an assassination and blamed us?' " John Paul sent a personal envoy to Karadzic to get him to repeat the same thing to his face. He did. That...
...biggest fear is that the retreating forces will have to fight their way out. Commanders from both Bosnian and Serbian camps crave the U.N.'s light tanks and armored vehicles, which the peacekeepers have vowed to take with them. The Serbs could fire down on the departing columns as they move along the mountain roads. Snipers and artillery could harass convoys ambushed at roadblocks. There are dozens of bridges and tunnels along the way from Sarajevo to the coast, all vulnerable to sabotage. NATO would fight back with armed helicopters, asserting control over localized chunks of the heights while...