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ALLIED LEADERS WERE DISCUSSING INTERVENTION in Bosnia last week when the commanders of the rebel Serb forces and the Bosnian army unexpectedly signed a cease-fire, to take effect on May 9. Suddenly, there was hope that the intervention no one really wants would not be necessary. But would the truce hold? Many such agreements have been made and broken during the past year. Only a week ago, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had signed the Vance- Owen peace plan. Just as Secretary of State Warren Christopher switched gears in Europe, from lobbying allies on a plan to bomb...
There was a glimmer of hope at week's end that none of this would be necessary. At Sarajevo airport, the commanders of the rebel Serb forces and the Bosnian army signed a cease-fire agreement aimed at "a cessation of armed attacks" throughout the country on Sunday. They also agreed to demilitarize the encircled Muslim towns of Srebrenica and Zepa...
...instruments and singing about Irish political themes. Irish pop music experts point out that in the past few years the genre has diversified. There's House of Pain, an Irish-American rap group that features b-boy bravado and beer-soaked rhymes ("Coming with the style of a Celtic rebel/ Those that ain't on my level call me the blue-eyed devil"), and the Belfast grunge band Therapy?, whose debut album Nurse wallows in pounding metal rhythms and anarchistic attitude ("I don't need you/ I don't want you/ I don't want to feel anymore"). Earlier this...
...Rebel leaders say that because of the encirclement, it is virtually impossible to get supplies into the swamps or evacuate the wounded. Access has been limited to small boats that attempt to steal past Iraqi army positions at night. According to a report prepared for the European Community, the government blockade has brought widespread starvation to the marshes and caused commodity prices to rise by "300 times in the past six months." The blockade is so effective, says the report, that there is not even a black market...
...marsh fighters have given up hope that the Western allies will mount a large-scale rescue. "When we saw the allied jets ignore the guns that were killing us and hit only the missiles that threatened their planes last year, we knew we had been abandoned," said a rebel leader in Tehran...