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Halfway down a corridor, Becky suddenly heard "the voice," an irritating robotic message transmitted from the suitcase to a wireless, button-sized beige receiver in her ear. "Gamma alarm four," the voice droned. That was a strong radiation signal. She glanced left at the room number on the next door and subtracted three from it. The detector's microcomputer takes several seconds to analyze the radiation and calculate its strength, so the room three doors behind her must have been the one actually giving off gamma rays...
...commander of the First Brigade of the First Armored Division is in trouble for remarks he made about the warring factions in Bosnia. Army Col. Gregory Fontenot, commander of U.S. Army troops patrolling the still contested Posavina Corridor in northern Bosnia, was quoted in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal as saying, "They don't think I trust them, and they're right. These are people who kill women and children and attack their neighbors. They're offended by me? Hell, I'm offended that I had to come here because of all their fighting." Though the Pentagon remained tightlipped about...
...Elysee Palace in Paris on Dec. 14 virtually guarantees upheavals in the Bosnian capital. The pact consigns several Serb-populated suburbs to control by the Bosnian government. Rather than live under their hated enemies, Serbs are threatening to leave their homes in those suburbs and in the corridor to Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. Around Gorazde, some Serbs were stripping their homes of everything transportable--in at least one case literally including the kitchen sink--and setting out for the Serbs' Republika Srpska, newly recognized by the Paris deal. At night, convoys of army trucks trundle down the treacherous mountain slopes...
...effort to bring the Serbs back up to 49%, the Americans had tried to find some sparsely settled spots in Croat areas. That set off one of the worst tussles, over the so-called Posavina corridor, the narrow strip in the north, at the top of the map of Bosnia, that links Serb holdings in the northwest of the country with those in the east. Milosevic continued to seek a wider corridor. But Tudjman balked at handing over the parts held by Bosnian Croats as compensation for Serb losses elsewhere. This time Bill Clinton had to step in. He phoned...
Izetbegovic then made his final demand. He wanted Brcko, the Serb-controlled town that anchors the Posavina corridor, turned over to his federation. This looked like a deal breaker. It was almost as if the Presidents were afraid to conclude the deal. "At the end," says Holbrooke, "we faced not a question of substance but one of political will. Do you actually put pen to paper?" Christopher drafted language on his handy yellow pad that would submit the Brcko issue to international arbitration and sent copies to the three delegations...