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Seeing a disposal site for inmates who disappeared, and whose murders were described by fellow prisoners, came as a shock to a 58-year-old Croat electrical engineer, who told his story last week. The skilled workman had been spared internment because he was needed to help maintain power lines. One morning in June 1992, he says, his crew was checking a line near the livestock farm when they abruptly halted. Off the road, where the oddly green patch now sits, was a large excavation with parts of clothed corpses protruding, and with a yellow bulldozer parked nearby...
...Secretary of Defense William Perry has offered to help investigators, but only if it does not interfere with his troops' main mission--and only after all U.S. forces are in place, which will not be for another month. Right now, the peace enforcers' primary job is to create and maintain a "zone of separation" between the belligerents, a task nearly completed last week. Lieut. General Michael Walker, commander of NATO ground troops in Bosnia, declared, "We would be running around like rabbits if we went rushing after every single mass-grave allegation." NATO, though, also seems to be shying away...
This focus has been invaluable to Penningroth in her recovery from last year's injury. In her quest to help Harvard win, Penningroth has been working hard on strength training for the throwing events while taking care to maintain the speed and dexterity required for the jumps and dashes of the pentathalon. Although she is modest about her own abilities, she is openly excited about the team's upcoming season...
...week's cheerier air travelers ran luggage-cart races during enforced overnight stays in terminals up and down the coast. Many of the surlier ones, it seemed, were packed onto United Flight 801 from New York City to Tokyo, whose captain reportedly had to threaten arrest to maintain order when the plane was delayed 7 1/2 hours on the runway...
That's because speculating about political fallout is an endeavor in which reporters can feign expertise, and they can do it with a veneer of impartiality that is harder to maintain when assessing the actual merits of a proposal. "The effect is as flattening and mind-shrinking as if the discussion of every new advance in medicine boiled down to speculation about whether its creator would win the Nobel Prize that year...