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...months as commander of the U.N. peace force in Bosnia, French General Philippe Morillon earned a maverick reputation. He struck observers as unpredictable, impulsive, eccentric; one senior U.N. official called him "a loose cannon" in constant need of being "reined in." He held strange formal dinners while Serbian shells fell on Sarajevo: stories of waiters in tails serving guests in white gloves and full dress uniforms scandalized the city. No one thought he was inclined toward heroics until last week, when he surprised his colleagues, and perhaps himself. He risked his life, his honor and the U.N.'s dwindling credibility...
...month the general shocked others on the scene by saying he had not "smelled the odor of death" there. When he returned to the area last week, it was all around him. Serbian shells rained down, one a second at times, and 20 or more people died every day. Morillon drove in over a snow-covered mountain track and encountered the reality of Srebrenica: refugees trudging south from captured towns had swollen the population from 9,000 to as many as 80,000. Everywhere there were ragged, hungry crowds, sleeping in the snow, huddling around sputtering bonfires in sub-zero...
...Srebrenica with 175 tons of food and medicine. No trucks had gone through to the town since Dec. 9, and the only supplies to arrive there were those parachuted in by U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo planes. Several people were stabbed in struggles over the dropped bundles. Morillon spent eight days futilely trying to open the road for the convoy and start the evacuation of sick and wounded. "We absolutely need this convoy," he said...
...regard the ploy as part of the Serb campaign to rid the area of non-Serbs. Serb officials seemed to confirm that with a statement that Muslims and Serbs "will not live together ever again." In spite of the U.N.'s reluctance to assist in the "cleansing," General Philippe Morillon, head of the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, went to Cerska on Friday to try, apparently unsuccessfully, to negotiate an evacuation...
...supplies from Belgrade, was raked by machine-gun fire near Sarajevo's airport. The U.N. commander in Sarajevo, Egyptian Brigadier General Hussein Ali Abdul-Razek, blamed the attack on "irresponsible elements" among the Bosnian government troops loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic. Abdul- Razek's deputy, French Lieut. General Philippe Morillon, called it "a clear provocation by people who are enormously upset by the possibility of peace and determined to remain...