Word: mortars
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...mortar attack, allegedly perpetrated by the Bosnian Serbs, which killed 66 civilians in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo Saturday drew much attention from the media and sparked debate among international political leaders this week...
...Mortar shells take a horrible toll on the country's children...
...their Sarajevo apartment building to play. It seemed safe enough; the Serb artillery batteries lining the hilltops around the city had been quiet for several days. Besides, the children were inside a U.N.-declared safe zone. As the Muslim boys and girls shouted and rode their sled, 120-mm mortar shells landed with a roar. The children dropped to the ground and then, when more explosions followed, ran for the beckoning safety of their building. Inside, fearful families rushed to the windows. As they watched, a shell exploded just behind the running children. The fresh snow instantly turned...
Postscript: a day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced out of the surrounded Muslim enclave in Mostar and crashed into a playground in the Croat section of the city. The explosion killed three boys and a girl, all between...
...Name of the Father showcases a different kind of art. Sheridan (My Left Foot) is a bricklayer among directors; you can see the mortar between scenes. But he dares to make his hero something more, or rather less, than a plaster saint; Gerry is a scurvy thief who is guilty of every social crime but the one he's charged with. The drama here is eventually located not in the young man's battle against the Brits but in the coming to terms with his father, and thus his place in his family and his haggard country...