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...Mithat Alagic lives with his wife and seven children in a one-bedroom apartment with walls blackened by soot from a wood stove. Alagic, 36, was groundskeeper for the Sarajevo football team for 15 years before the war, but has not worked since the fighting began. His family survives on dwindling supplies from the U.N. "It just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Without Hope | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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