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...groundwork for last week's raids had been laid two months earlier, when the U.N. "safe havens" of Srebrenica and Zepa were overrun by the Bosnian Serbs. The inability of nato and the U.N. to prevent the fall of either town, despite their pledges to protect it, galvanized the allies' resolve to ensure that nothing like that would happen again. "The fall of Srebrenica was a blow to the credibility of the West, and we are the leader of the West," said a senior State Department official. "If we didn't respond with U.S. leadership, the situation was going...
Many Western towns are tightening zoning codes, imposing construction moratoriums and limiting the number of building permits they issue. Moab, Utah, a desert town, has been overrun by spring breakers, mountain bikers and other newcomers; in response, the surrounding county imposed a subdivision moratorium. The fight over growth in the West is sure to be intensified by the selection of Salt Lake City, Utah, as the host of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, which will bring Olympic-size hype and a flood of tourists. "The Games will accelerate the environmental assault," says Alexis Kelner, co-founder of Utahans for Responsible...
...horror stories emerged about the rape, robbery and murder of refugees from the overrun "safe area" of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serbs surrounded the town of Zepa, another U.N. safe haven. Western allies met in London at week's end, threatening a substantial and decisive response -- including air strikes -- if the Serbs moved against Gorazde, the last Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia. But the allies also fretted about the serious risks involved in opposing the Serbs...
...Dutch troops are attempting to regroup around the area. There was no word on the fate of 30 Dutch hostages taken by Serb forces over the weekend. Srebrenica is the first of the six "safe areas" for civilians, which were established by the U.N. two years ago, to be overrun by Serb forces.TIME's Mark Thompsonsays: "The fall of Srebrenica forces the West into a decision. Either take it back or leave altogether." Defense Secretary William Perry seemed to be leaning toward the latter option, saying that the city's fall "raises the question as to whether the U.N. force...
Working with a $12 million annual budget, officials are hard pressed to maintain essential park services, let alone improve and expand them. Primitive water and sewer lines regularly rupture. Twisted, aging roads are dangerous and confusing. The visitors' center is cramped, overrun and hard to find. Its exhibits are outdated and the roof leaks. Employee housing is so critically short that some government workers are living in the medical clinic and an old laundry. Others are billeted in rickety trailers that were hauled to the site from nearby Glen Canyon Dam, where they housed the dam's construction crew...