Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Corps. He claims to have 45,000 men -- a gross exaggeration according to intelligence estimates that put the total Serb troops in Bosnia at no more than 90,000 -- under his command, and controls about 400 sq. mi. of territory substantially "cleansed" of Muslims. The situation map behind his desk shows his lines extending like a pointed finger into Muslim territory. All that would be needed to trap the corps would be for the Muslims to cut through the 10-mile-wide base of the finger with an assault on Doboj. It is an uncomfortable position...
...Lisica is a hero, a former Yugoslav Army officer who has battled his way across Bosnia. He thinks he may be tried as a war criminal if the Americans come but says he cannot worry about that. From his office, bare except for the desk, eight chairs and a cot, he can hear the NATO planes. They trouble him and often, as they roar overhead, he will stop in mid-conversation and begin a tirade against the forces that are arrayed against his men. But he is defiant about the possibility of foreign intervention. "I draw the maps around here...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
Then I looked over at my desk where I still keep the gavel that was presented to me at the end of my term, reassuring myself that my presidency was not a mere figment of my imagination...
Keith, the redhead, jiggles a red pencil between two fingers so it looks like it is made of rubber. Khalilah spreads the Boston Herald on her desk...