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...They saw that I had been a chemistry major, sothey sent me to the Chemical Warfare ProvingGround at Dugway in Utah where they devisedincendiary bombs and napalm," she says...
...mainly Muslim "safe zone" theoretically under U.N. protection in Bosnia's northwest corner. "After they arrived," a U.N. spokesman reported, "two loud explosions were heard." Military monitors went to inspect and found fragments from cluster bombs and, in the U.N.'s view, for the first time in the war, napalm. Fighting worsened the next day as Serbian jets from Udbina bombed and strafed the center of the nearby town of Cazin...
...NATO's biggest attack in its 45-year history, 30 warplanes today bombed a base where Serbs equipped planes with napalm bombs used last week against the Bosnians in Bihac. TheNATO raidfollowed Saturday's U.N. resolution specifically authorizing an attack on Serb-held Croatia, the airfield location. U.S., British, French and Dutch jets were deployed in the air strike -- NATO's seventh since the Bosnian war started in April 1992 -- which will put the base out of commission for just a month. Yet, it represented a dramatic departure from previous "pinprick" NATO attacks in which one or two warplanes bombed...
Serb forces,defying stern United Nations warnings, today crossed a deadly threshold in the Bosnian struggle by dropping napalm on a "safe area" designated by the U.N. The incident in northwest Bosnia was the first confirmed use of napalm in the 2 1/2-year war. NATO was reportedly considering a response.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...signatories of the memo postulated, was nothing less than "to protect the integrity of the Championship Season." Such logic had last been employed during the Vietnam War. In order to save the village that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...