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After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and-worst hit-the Netherlands. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion...
After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and--worst hit--the Netherlands. Dutch authorities, fearing that some of the country's giant earthen dikes would collapse, evacuated more than 200,000 people from the land between the Meuse and the Waal rivers. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion...
Clear, brown or in between, water in tidal-wave volumes was sloshing over the banks of the Rhine and other major rivers, drowning vast stretches of northwestern Europe. In a week when happiness was a dry attic, a crow flying over the countryside would have needed not only its own rations but pontoon landing gear. Torrential rains had combined with unseasonable melting of Alpine snows to surcharge waterways funneling into the Low Countries. Though the Dutch remained mostly dry, the largest evacuation ever mobilized in the Netherlands cleared 250,000 people from their homes in Gelderland and Limburg, two southern...
...headed by a Vietnam war veteran, should make it easier to resolve cases of missing military men. Bosnian Cease-Fire Still Shaky In Bosnia the New Year's cease-fire brokered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter seemed more elastic than ever. Renewed fighting broke out in the northwestern Bihac enclave, as rebel Muslims and Serbs from neighboring Croatia battled Bosnian government forces. The new violence came just as the new British commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia, Lieut. General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations...
...Year's Day cease-fire, negotiated in part by former President Jimmy Carter, looked increasingly fragile. More than 400 explosions were reported near the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslims battled Bosnian government forces. In Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, Serb troops refused to allow the U.N. to de-ice the airport runway, and in Tuzla, in north-central Bosnia, 1,000 peacekeepers were blockaded without food or heat by the government...