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...with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde was the only sizable town still in Muslim hands, and it was under Serb assault and siege, its streets reportedly littered with corpses. Fighting around the southern town of Mostar, the chief objective of a recent Croat offensive, also intensified. Sarajevo went without power or water for 48 hours after Serbs blew up power lines. Though service was restored, the shutoff illustrated how tight a vise the besiegers have clamped on the city...
...ripping apart the intricately entwined ethnic mix of the old Yugoslavia, the makeshift arrangements of the dispossessed sometimes forge new bonds. Jelena Pekez, 27, a Croat from the Bosnian town of Jajce, is married to a Serb. Vesna Gacic, 29, a Serb from the Bosnian town of Mostar, is married to a man of Croatian and Muslim descent. Both women fled to Kosmaj, south of Belgrade: Pekez left just ahead of a total blockade of her hometown, Gacic after a frightening 20-day stay in an underground shelter. When the two women's paths crossed at a center...
...estimated as high as $100 billion. For the youngest generation, home has become a threat, not a refuge. Last week at the center in Kosmaj, four-year- old Natasha ran up to her mother in tears. A boy had taunted Natasha, saying she had to return home to Mostar in Bosnia, where the girl had recently spent three weeks underground. "Don't worry," her mother soothed. "We won't ever go back to Mostar again." When the little girl smiled, the mother looked as though she would...
...took the film on a chartered Learjet to London and by Concorde to New York City. One day the airport was closed, so Frey and TIME's Yugoslav driver, Jovan Vučkoviċ, set off on a hair-raising ride over winding, snow-covered mountain roads to Mostar, 84 miles away, where the Learjet waited. Says Frey: "The drive, in good weather, takes two hours. We made it in an hour and 55 minutes." So fell another Olympic record...
...young hobbyists had almost completed their project when a Yugoslav civilian spotted them standing in the bushes outside a busy military airfield at Mostar, looking at the planes with binoculars. He called the police, who promptly arrested them and charged them with espionage. Curtis and Mason, police said, also had in their possession a large telescope, a shortwave radio capable of monitoring aircraft communications and a tape recorder. They also had several notebooks full of data about Yugoslavia's airfields, which were being used by Soviet planes to fly supplies to Syria and Egypt during the Middle East...