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Make no mistake. Lithuania wants to beat Croatia. Australia plans to beat them both. The Unified Team thinks it can take home silver in what is sure to be its final appearance in the Games. Puerto Rico has ambitions for a medal. Even Angola has its sights set on ninth place and greater respect. In the most competitive Olympic tournament since the sport was introduced in 1936, none of the other 11 teams think much about trying to beat the U.S. Dream Team. They are not idiots, after...
...repetition of the 16th to early 18th centuries. "Then," he says, "the region was in a state of permanent seasonal war." A modern version might consist of back-and-forth fighting among Serbs, Croats and remnants of an independent Bosnia across ever shifting frontiers. War could resume in Croatia too, despite the presence of 14,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Though a cease-fire has supposedly been in effect since January, Serbs last week resumed shelling the port of Dubrovnik...
...what had been - left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde was the only sizable town still in Muslim hands...
...silver medals in Seoul in 1988. The best former Soviet players now wear the uniform of Lithuania. Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac led Yugoslavia to the silver medal at Seoul. This time, however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them so. And in Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilians have one of the game's best three-point shooters. But even if you put all these...
...wall that Serbian forces had formed around the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo was pierced just enough to let in a ray of hope last week. More than 1,000 Canadian peacekeepers flying the United Nations flag rolled in through the mountains from Croatia to buttress a small U.N. force already in place. The ^ troops and armored vehicles quickly cleared and reopened the airport that had been closed for 87 days by Serbian shelling and sniper fire...