Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again that the tens and tens of millions who perished shall not have died in vain. Yet, for all the pious proclamations to the contrary, Bosnia shows that we have not remembered the lessons we swore that we would never forget. In the town of Mostar, pock-marked by mortar shells, someone has scribbled on a wall a reminder and a reproach: "Don't Forget." Maybe this time...
...mortar has been laid, the bricks have been act, and much of what remains to be done before the December opening of the new Loker Commons is now in the hands of Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry...
Thus in the concrete courtyard outside the cafeteria at St. Aloysius Gonzaga--before classes, between classes, in any weather, in the demon energy of our hormones--we played basketball. A boy would launch a set shot from the outside that rose steeply and dropped like a mortar shell. Swish! Another teenage pregnancy averted...
Despite the focus on peace, the war in Bosnia has pulled in a new belligerent: NATO. As the official protector of the four remaining U.N.-declared safe areas, NATO retaliated with air power last month after a Serb mortar shell killed 43 people in Sarajevo. On Aug. 30, the alliance launched heavy attacks on Serb military storage areas, ammunition plants, missile sites and radar and communications centers around Sarajevo, the Serbs' capital of Pale and other parts of Bosnia. NATO then warned Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic that he had to pull his heavy weapons back from the city...
When the Bosnian Serbs' 120-mm mortar shell fell on the crowded shopping area last week, few residents believed the U.N. and NATO would live up to the promise they had made earlier in the summer to respond harshly if the Serbs attacked Sarajevo. "I am skeptical. So many people have died, and so many empty threats have been made," said hairdresser Admir Savic, 30, on the day after the massacre. "You can fool somebody once, maybe even twice, but nobody is going to believe you the third time. If they wanted to help us, they would have done...