Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point, said the paper, Le Canard Enchaine, Gen. Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serbs now under indictment for war crimes, told the two men that they would be tortured and killed. The newspaper reports that the French government told the pilots to give the public a calm rendition of their captivity. "But," says TIME?s Bruce Crumley, "the paper contends that when they were debriefed by military intelligence, the pilots told them what really happened." The pilots, Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lt. Jose Souvignet, were beaten and kicked by Serb soldiers from the moment they were first taken captive...
Despite the seeming calm on the military front, hundreds of nervous Bosnian Serbs were packing up and fleeing Sarajevo in anticipation of Bosnian Muslims taking control of the city beginning January 19. It is unclear how significant this movement is, says Alexandra Niksic, because many of those lining the roads were carting furniture rather than clothes and essentials. There were some reports of houses being burned as they left, but so far no accounts of violence. The fear, says Alexandra Niksic, is being fanned by Bosnian Serb leaders who remain beligerently opposed to the terms of the Dayton accord which...
...becoming a very good leader on the court," says Rankin. "It strengthens our confidence to see him calm out there...
...called Elisa's CWA caseworker, who told him he was "too busy" to come by. Moreover, O'Connor says the caseworker never responded to this fifth appeal to CWA, despite repeated subsequent calls. O'Connor took the Lopezes to a city hospital for psychiatric counseling, and Awilda seemed to calm down somewhat. To O'Connor's dismay, however, she repeatedly avoided signing a release that would allow him to send his observations to the city agency. By last July she had dropped out of touch entirely...
...character of Caliban (Jack Willis) also goes against convention. Instead of a quick-tempered, bestial brute, Daniels casts Caliban as a calm, wry cynic. He thus lends a shrewd, cynical edge to lines usually spoken in anger or resentment: "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse; the red plague rid you for learning me your language...