Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Richard Holbrooke began urging a pause, worried that further attacks might backfire by making the Serbs more recalcitrant. In all, 506 sorties were flown; the Serbs shot down only one plane, a French Mirage 2000C. The two crew members ejected, but their fate is unknown. The operation was regarded as a success, but officials soon tempered their exultant initial reports...
...main sticking points include the fate of Gorazde, the remaining enclave that the Bosnian government holds in the east. It is the "safe area" that the London meeting vowed in particular to protect, but it would be isolated in Serb territory. Another potential stumbling block concerns partitioning Sarajevo to allow the Serbs to control a part of the capital. The Bosnian Serbs made this a condition of their turning over negotiating authority to Milosevic, but the Bosnian government rules...
...country, including Serb headquarters in Pale. The besieged residents of Sarajevo, who have long felt abandoned by the West, shouted with joy from their balconies as they listened to the bombs fall near by. The only NATO casualty: a French Mirage, shot down by Serb gunners; the fate of the two airmen, who were seen ejecting from the jet, is unknown...
...Roseanne Roseannadanna and "Jane, you ignorant slut!" are long gone. But to those who cannot remember them, the Saturday Night Live of the mid-1990s must seem like some flavorless leftover that Mom and Dad--those mockable aging baby boomers--refuse to discard from the fridge. Still, the fate of Lorne Michaels' legendary, revolutionary late-night comedy show continues to fascinate as almost no other show on TV does; what happens to it matters...
...good effect) has reason to be open to any romantic possibility: it's 1945, he's just been mustered out of the army and has discovered that his hasty wartime marriage was a mistake. Besides, A Walk in the Clouds being in the magic-realist vein, a playful fate seems to want them to get together...