Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...area of Han Pijesak, headquarters of Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic, who was indicted for genocide by the Bosnia war crimes tribunal. The Portuguese soldiers were heading east of Sarajevo to deliver food supplies when several shots were fired from nearby woods, hitting the last vehicle in the convoy. When the Portuguese soldiers fired back, three men ran from the woods. The incident came on the same day that war crimes investigators in Cerska began a meticulous exhumation of the mass graves in which they expect to find about 7,000 bodies of Muslim men who were massacred...
...matter of what comprises a military operation. The way he sees it, the Russians aren't planning any big operations; the troops are just defending themselves." However Yeltsin views the conflict, it still looks very much like a war. Two weeks ago, Chechen rebels ambushed a Russian convoy and killed more than 70 soldiers. Last week they attacked Russian positions with rifles and grenades dozens of times each day, and the Russians responded with artillery and air strikes...
...southern Lebanon last week when, amid the sound of artillery fire, she heard on the vehicle's walkie-talkie that a refugee camp in nearby Qana had been hit by Israeli shells. As the truck made its way to the scene, several bombs exploded within 275 yds. of her convoy. This was nothing new for TIME's Beirut bureau chief. Marlowe has been perilously close to the action since she joined TIME in 1989. Her datelines include some of the world's most dangerous places: Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Somalia, Algeria. Fluent in French and Arabic, Marlowe has one inflexible...
...said he found "a very sincere will" in Clinton to make peace in the Middle East. Even as negotiations continued, Israeli air, artillery and gunboat attacks continued in Lebanon for the 14th consecutive day, pounding suspected Hizballah guerrilla bases and the Beirut-Tyre highway. Rockets fell near a U.N convoy, supplying food and supplies to besieged villages in the South, damaging a U.N armored vehicle. No injuries were reported. Israeli war planes also blasted a pipeline which provides water to 23 villages in southern Lebanon as well as to Irish, Finnish and Ghanaian U.N camps...
...THOSE WHO STOOD, BEWILdered, on the streets of Dunblane that terrible day last week, the sight of the anguished woman is one they can never forget, a defining vision of the Scottish town's moment of horror. "Victoria!" she cried, as a convoy of ambulances sped past, sirens screaming and lights flashing. "Victoria!" That was one of the names: Victoria. Others, read out in a mournful voice by police chief superintendent Louis Munn, were as familiar and as evocative of middle-class Scottish family life: Emma, Melissa and Megan; Charlotte, Kevin, Ross and Hannah; David, Mhairi, Brett and Abigail; Emily...