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...tide of people leaving Bosnia is not just a consequence of the war; it is an objective. Serbs, who lay claim to one-third of Croatia and some 70% of Bosnia's territory, hope that enforced ethnic homogeneity will ensure their lock on seized areas. Many are willing to go to almost any length to realize their dream of a Greater Serbia. Abdulrahman, 26, a Bosnian Muslim who fled from Zvornik, describes how he and two friends were on their way to the bakery to buy bread when they were nabbed by Serbian soldiers of the federal army and subjected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of Slaughter | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Citizens of all political persuasions say thenon-party party-lines are being drawn deeper anddeeper. Consequently, the adjustment from a20-year Independent lock on City Hall to a CCAmajority will require concomitant changes...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Political Observers See Growing Partisan Friction in City | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...lock five men in a room for 24 hours a day without fighting about something. Sometimes it would be something as small as "Stay off my cot, or my mattress," or "I don't like the way you play bridge," or something like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terry Anderson: The World is Fresh and Bright and Beautiful | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...brutality of the murder so stunned the people of Grundy (pop. 1,300) that from that time on, townspeople began to lock their doors at night. No one expected to sleep very well until the murderer was found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

Each night Miguel will attempt the quad only once. The uninitiated observer sees only a blur of sequined tights, tucked, spinning, floating up there like a soap bubble before gravity resumes and the jumper's hands lock with the catcher. There he goes, now it's over...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Day With The CIRCUS | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

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