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...CONQUEST CAME WITH SURPRISING EASE. FOR months Serb forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was a stone in their path...
...Until recently, his art stayed in a sort of limbo; very few visitors to the Prado would ever turn out of the traffic stream headed for Velazquez to take a good look at the great Riberas, like The Martyrdom of Saint Philip, 1639, which hung in the corridor. This show will certainly change that, although it leaves Ribera himself still rather an indistinct figure...
...purification" of Muslims from these towns and villages in northwestern Bosnia has proved a hollow victory for the Serbs, destroying prosperity as well as security. All supplies must be trucked in from Belgrade, along a corridor often under fire from Croatian artillery. Residents complain of food shortages. There is no gasoline; most travel by bicycle and horse- drawn cart. People do not know how they will heat their homes as winter approaches...
...Brussels the NATO allies are still debating their role in case force must be used to deliver aid to Bosnia. NATO military experts had proposed using 100,000 troops to guard a land corridor from Split to Sarajevo, but that idea was rejected two weeks ago. France, Britain and Italy have said they are ready to contribute forces of around 2,000 soldiers each, and NATO is now considering using a total of 10,000 troops, not to hold open a corridor but to convoy road shipments to Sarajevo. The U.S. says it is willing to contribute air units...
...NATO contingency plan calling for 100,000 alliance troops to hold a land corridor from the Adriatic coast was rejected last week. Britain's Deputy Foreign Minister Douglas Hogg flew to Sarajevo to tell Bosnian President Izetbegovic "that there is no cavalry coming over the hill, that there is no international force coming...