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...areas. According to his report, the first pocket, 120 yds. south of the base, was struck almost exclusively by "impact-fuzed" shells, which explode when they hit the ground. These rounds, which are most effective at destroying equipment and munitions, landed close to where Hizballah had been firing a mortar at a nearby Israeli ground unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which are designed to detonate above the ground so as to widen the radius of impact. The use of that ordnance, which is especially effective at killing...
Additional bones of contention were the $40 million of B.G.E.A. money that Franklin, as a board committee chairman, directed toward the Cove, a beautifully appointed Bible-study center in Montreat that is the only brick-and-mortar institution Billy built to outlast him; and Franklin's insistence that the B.G.E.A. must stay in revivals rather than becoming just another religious foundation. But most likely what put off Franklin's opponents was simple culture clash. "You're dealing with people who have been in this organization a long time and remember the day I was born and might still view...
...once large Muslim population could have survived in Grbavica. During the long siege of Sarajevo, this modern metropolitan area had been a haunt of Serb bands like Vojislav Seselj's White Eagles and Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznatovic's Tigers, who used it as a base for snipers and mortar attacks on the government-held center. Muslims who failed to flee at the start of war in April 1992 found themselves trapped inside the enclave, facing death at the hands of "ethnic cleansers." In short order, the place was left almost entirely to the Serbs...
...sink--and setting out for the Serbs' Republika Srpska, newly recognized by the Paris deal. At night, convoys of army trucks trundle down the treacherous mountain slopes and haul out the insides of factories and military bases. The potential for new violence was underscored when two grenades and a mortar fired from the direction of Serb-held territory exploded in an unoccupied area of Sarajevo only minutes after the signing ceremony had flickered off TV screens. On the same day, Bosnian government forces shot at a French helicopter, and Croat soldiers clashed with mujahedin, Islamic volunteers fighting on the side...
...nature of the NATO mission--policing long, snakelike "zones of separation" between the warring factions--means that troops will never be far out of mortar and artillery range. Any Balkan soldier who chooses to will easily be able to fire a couple of shells at them. After doing so, however, he will have to move quickly to avoid being hit by NATO's sophisticated counter-artillery fire. A senior Army planner says, "We would expect to return artillery fire at the location where it's coming from almost before the round hits the ground...