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...lightweight races, the Radcliffe "A" boat--which has yet to lose a race all year--demolished Ford-ham...
Fragmented accounts painted a picture of final hours fraught with confusion and bloodletting. "In the name of God, do something!" cried one of Srebrenica's ham radio operators on Friday. The next day began with an eerie silence that was shattered when Serb gunners opened fire again and the town took cover as best it could...
...Serbs say I'm a human shield," the general conceded in an interview conducted by ham radio. "Yes, I am a shield. I will remain in Srebrenica as long as I consider the safety of the inhabitants at risk." Those were brave words from a soldier who up to then had had few admirers. He had drawn criticism from the U.N. contingent in the Bosnian capital for hobnobbing with Serbian militia chiefs, like Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Sarajevo," and for not forthrightly denouncing Serbian aggression. His orders from the U.N. were not to use force...
...wheels and zoom around the city, it is discovered that time moves more slowly for people in motion. In this world, however, the happiest people are those who have stopped competing to live in the fastest house, but instead "rise in the morning, take baths, eat plaited bread and ham, work at their desks, listen to music, talk to their children, lead lives of satisfaction...
...driving out the villagers. "Civilians, women, children and old people are being killed, usually by having their throats cut," reported the High Commissioner, Sadako Ogata. In fact Ogata, like other U.N. officials and foreign journalists, had no firsthand knowledge of what was happening. The world was relying on what ham-radio operators in the Muslim towns were broadcasting. But, she said, "if only 10% of the information is true, we are witnessing a massacre...