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...used by Tito's communists in the former Yugoslavia almost a half-century ago. Bosnian army units, some with barely 100 men, began ambushing Serb forces at 16 different locations around the country. Instead of the frontal assaults that foundered against the Serbs' superior firepower, says U.N. spokesman Paul Risley in Zagreb, the Bosnians "are employing commando tactics to grab territory." The breadth of the government offensive has exposed how thin the Serb defenses are: reinforcements dispatched to the Bihac region came from Kupres, for example, leaving it largely undefended...
...families' often will. Given the anguish at the deathbed, it is not surprising that patients and relatives may argue over treatment decisions -- or that doctors often side with the family. "The law is designed to give preference to living wills over the wishes of relatives," says Robert Risley, a Los Angeles attorney who drafted the state's initiative to legalize doctor- assisted suicide. "But as a practical matter it throws the health-care provider into a dilemma if there is a conflict...
...then Elaine Risley moves on. She is poignantly aware that all the rejuvenating creams and unguents in the world are useless against the abrasions of time. Only two devices have ever been known to arrest the years: memory and art. She puts both to use in this quirky, brilliant evocation of a childhood seen from the middle of the journey...
With just more than a minute remaining in the period, John Risley jarred the ball loose from Brown punt returner Bigby and Yale recovered on the Brown...
...Louisiana's State Representative Risley Claiborne ("Pappy") Triche was a legislative floor leader in the fight against school desegregation in the 1960s. But in 1972, speaking in favor of two bills aimed at protecting racial minorities from job discrimination, he acknowledged that some people might think, " 'Listen to that segregationist. Isn't that the guy who offered all the segregation bills in 1960 and fought the battle to preserve segregation in our public school system?' The only reply I can make to that, gentlemen, is that yes, that occurred. At that time in the state of development of the history...