Word: nato
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Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott headed to Moscow to try to calm Russian anger over the NATO raids as Boris Yeltsin intensified his opposition. Yeltsin's government today branded the bombing runs "genocide" against the Serbs. Yesterday, Moscow called upon the Security Council to halt the raids. Sally Donnelly reports from Moscow that Yeltsin is playing to the home team, talking tough as Russian parliamentary election campaigns proceed. "The Russians are suffering from 'former superpower angst'," Donnelly says. "If the U.S. had become a lesser power, and Russia and Europe were ignoring the U.S. and intervening in a place...
...others, though, the arrival of the NATO bombers, however belated, inspired daydreams. "My son has basically been under house arrest because we have been too afraid to let him play outside," said Cazim Corovic, 30. "I want to go out with him, show him a zoo and an amusement park, give him fresh fruits to eat. This has been no life for him, and I feel guilty for it." His wife Snezana is a Serb from Belgrade, and she was offered the chance to escape several times, but she did not want to abandon her husband, a Bos nian Muslim...
...lost someone they knew or loved. Only once in the past 41 months have they enjoyed a period of relative peace, and it took a massacre in the same area to bring it about. When a Serb shell killed 68 people and wounded an additional 200 in February 1994, nato established a 12.5-mile heavy-weapons-exclusion zone around the city and forced the Serbs to put their guns under U.N. control. For a few months, Sarajevans could even travel into and out of the city by using the U.N.-controlled "blue routes." But by July of last year...
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...
Even the swarming of NATO planes over the city the following day was not enough to convince desperate residents that rescue was at hand. The streets were empty; state radio urged people to stay home to avoid retaliatory shelling by the Serbs. The few who ventured out to fetch water or buy food stared at the sky and debated the latest events. "This is the beginning of the end of the war," said Zaim Alic, 48. But his friend Vahida Fazlagic, 64, interrupted him bitterly. She was driven from her home in Grbavica, a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo...