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...nothing to do with the sanctions negotiations, he had acted to "save the national pride of Serbia." According to notes of the meeting, he declared that "taking hostages ... is like shooting someone carrying a white flag." Milosevic said that he had sent his chief of state security to Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold, to tell Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and General Ratko Mladic, his military commander, that they would be arrested-and worse-if every one of the hostages was not freed, healthy and rearmed. As the day wore on with little news of progress in Pale, Milosevic...
...pale and gaunt Mickey Mantle made his first public appearance today since a liver transplant a month ago, with this warning for kids: "You talk about a role model, this is a role model: Don't be like me." The Yankee great, whose 40 years of hard drinking helped destroy his health, has dropped 40 pounds, and has a 60 percent chance of living five more years. "God gave me the ability to play baseball and I wasted it," he said. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make up. I want to start giving...
...highlands of Papua New Guinea, in a village near Goroka, the warriors, all but naked, smear their bodies with a pale mud and don surreal mud masks. Taking up clubs and spears and bows, they crouch and advance, ghostly, out of the Stone Age (which they inhabited until the day before yesterday) and into a clicking horde of tourists from a cruise ship that docked on the coast this morning. The "mud men" mime ferocity for a little while; then they mingle shyly in the crowd of rich white aliens and try to make sense of the paper money...
...troops who have besieged Sarajevo for the past 38 months. The combined Bosnian-Croat thrust advanced on three fronts; in response, the Serbs pounded the city with artillery. The fighting did not stop the wedding of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's daughter Sonja from taking place in nearby Pale on Saturday...
...even those challenges under Bok pale in comparison to the present threats...