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...Convoy Reaches Muslims...
...convoy carrying 175 tons of food and medicine reached the besieged Muslim quarter of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina after being held up by Croats. But for three days the trucks were prevented from leaving the town by frantic Muslims, who feared a Croat attack should the convoy depart. U.S. airdrops added to the relief effort for the city's 55,000 Muslims, cut off for two months by a Croat blockade...
...truism that Americans expect and desire their President to have some of the qualities of a king. When noting this phenomenon, observers usually have in mind Air Force One, the Deaverish pomp of presidential events, the Secret Service agents who so resemble a monarch's elite household guard, the convoy of limousines that accompanies the President on his visits, and the other grandiose appurtenances of the presidency. Even Bill Clinton has benefited from this aspect of his office and so appears somewhat more imposing and regal than would the former Governor of Arkansas if he were treated like...
Back in the orphanage from their market raid, the children live a modern version of Lord of the Flies. The school was once home to more than 170 children, but last winter the U.N. agreed to evacuate them. All those ages three to 14 were taken out by convoy and sent to Denmark. The older children say they would have gone too, but one of the convoys was attacked and two children were killed, so the U.N. stopped the evacuation...
...often to such poor effect: it drew a line in the blood- soaked soil of the Balkans and defied the Serbs to step over it. They lost no time in obliging. On Saturday a vanguard of 60 Canadian blue helmets en route to Srebrenica from Tuzla and an aid convoy from Belgrade failed to cross Serb lines. The soldiers were turned back by local Serb commanders; the aid trucks returned because of shelling in Srebrenica...