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Serb forces lined up their heavy guns last week and blasted their way toward Bihac, the last of the lands in the northwest held by the Bosnian government. Then Yugoslav-made jets from a Serb airbase in Croatia joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...
...Bosnia watched as two fighter-bombers took off from Udbina, in an area of Croatia controlled by Serbs. A few minutes later other U.N. military observers saw two jet planes roar low near the town of Bihac, a 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...
NATO's massive attack on a Serb-held air base Monday seemed to have little impact as Serbs today set northwest Bosnian villages on fire, sending civilians fleeing for their lives. They also fired missiles at two NATO jets flying over Serb-held areas (the missiles missed their targets). And Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, promised to unleash awave of retaliation against NATO and its members. "We will determine the time and the target of the revenge ourselves, but we will definitely make sure that it is painful for NATO nations," Karadzic told Bosnian Serb television. Even Bosnian...
...carefully manicured, geranium-laced lawn of John and Marie Kraft's brick bungalow on Chicago's Northwest Side bespeaks a sense of neighborhood pride. But as the other residents of this quiet street know, the Krafts' vigorous domesticity has an ugly side -- one that is about to cost them the property they have tended so lovingly...
...pleading poverty in his effort to get the U.N. to lift its devastating economic sanctions, but U.S. officials say Saddam has spent approximately $1 billion on palaces and VIP facilities since the Gulf War. One of the most opulent is a palace on Lake Tharthar, about 80 miles northwest of Baghdad, that is said to be five times the size of the White House. When the construction boom is over, the Master Builder of Baghdad, his family and top officials will have roughly 45 getaways, three times the prewar level...