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...days after the Serbs overran the Srebrenica enclave, all but a few of its 42,000 Muslims had been expelled. Thousands of them were in Tuzla or just outside, crowded into a makeshift tent city in appalling conditions at a U.N.-controlled airfield. The daytime sun was scorching, the smell overpowering. Wounded men on homemade wooden crutches hobbled amid hordes of kerchiefed old women in knitted vests as children shouted and played. Other thousands camped along the roadsides. Workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees put up temporary shelters and passed out food, but they were unable to keep...
After a stolen base, Katz registered the game's decisive hit, a soft liner down the left field line than cleared the bases. He then took second when Kessler overran the ball...
Harvard lightweight crew fared significantly better than its older, heavier counterpart. The Crimson overran a surprisingly fast Navy crew for its 29th Haines Cup on the Severn River in Annapolis Maryland...
Residents of al-Mograka were among an estimated 2,000 Palestinians who overran the Israeli army position guarding Netzarim on Nov. 19, forcing the soldiers to retreat temporarily while the mob raised the Hamas flag over the outpost. The incident prompted the military to fortify the position and strengthen the troop force there. Still, the soldiers remain edgy. "The situation is normal -- that is, dangerous," says one of the troopers...
...with ethnic cleansing of Muslims. The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, formed by the U.N. a year ago, issued a warrant today against Dragan Nikolic, who is accused of killing eight Muslim prisoners. He is also charged with torture, plunder and the illegal imprisonment of 500 Bosnian Muslims after Serbs overran the Bosnian city of Vlasenica in April1992. The trial isn't imminent -- Nikolic's precise whereabouts aren't known.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...