Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handed the American envoy a document signed by top Bosnian Serb leaders, including political leader Radovan Karadzic, military commander Ratko Mladic and Patri arch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church. "Look," said Milosevic, in what for him must have been a moment of supreme satisfaction. "I now speak for Pale." Translation: the Serbian President did what he had boasted he could do-he had delivered the Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table. Moreover, he could control the Serb side of the negotiations. According to the document, Milosevic would choose three of the six members of a Serb delegation...
...simply a reaffirmation of his close ties to Milosevic. What is interesting about this breakthrough, if indeed that is what it turns out to be, is that it was not triggered by NATO's air strikes. While last week's bombs no doubt concentrated minds in Pale, Milosevic had apparently secured Bosnian Serb cooperation before the planes ever took...
...novel, The Tortilla Curtain (Viking; 355 pages; $23.95), botches a good theme: the shuddering distaste of California's patio-living Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. His pale hero is Delaney, a nature writer who has moved with his wife Kyra, a real estate shark, to a housing development above Topanga Canyon. Delaney is not just politically correct, he's politically exquisite, but when a Mexican man, Candido, blunders in front of his white Acura on a canyon road, his reaction is angry revulsion: the wounded wet back, to whom he gives...
...longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed an airplane hijacked by four of its members in December, 1994. All four were slain in the raid. Then again, Bosnian Serbs could be sending the French a stern warning after a reported bombing attack this weekend on Pale, in which a close relative of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was supposedly targeted and killed. Finally, antinuclear groups have been angry because of President Jacques Chirac's recent decision to resume nuclear testing. Still the French are being particularly careful about speculating without evidence, says Rademaekers. For one thing, they...
...trying to make their way inside Zepa. They've hit the Serb right flank badly. About 1,100 are already inside bolstering the defenses, and another 1,900 are making it through. They're really causing havoc in Serb-held territory: they've cut the Serbian road to Pale, and cut off the Serbian capital from the rest of the country." The Bosnian government sources, however, predict that once Serb forces become secure, Zepa could still fall by Wednesday. Things inside the enclave have become so desperate, Barnes adds, that a slice of bread now sells...