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...began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...
...first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...
...over the war, Milosevic remains unshaken by the world's gathering wrath. "It is the totally wrong approach to pressure Yugoslavia to solve problems outside of Yugoslavia, in a situation in which we don't want to be involved," he says. His line is that since the newly constituted rump Yugoslavia has ordered its army out of Bosnia and turned the fight over to ethnic Serbs there, it is no longer Serbia's problem. But discouraged diplomats warn that nothing is likely to deter Milosevic from his goal of Greater Serbia. Says a U.S. analyst: "Where we're interested...
...Brussels the European Community imposed limited economic sanctions on the rump Yugoslav state at midweek. The Serbian Orthodox Church said it was "openly distancing itself" from the government in Belgrade. Then came the revolting images of death in Sarajevo's marketplace and the U.S., Britain and France pressed the U.N. Security Council to impose full, mandatory sanctions...
...member of Afghanistan's Tajik minority, had initially held his men out of the capital, partly to avoid chaos in the city of 1.5 million and , partly to try to seal it off from Hekmatyar, his principal rival. Hekmatyar, an ethnic Pashtun and Islamic fundamentalist, had demanded that the rump government in Kabul surrender to him so that a strictly religious Muslim regime could be installed. Now both mujahedin forces are in the center of the city, including the grounds of the presidential palace, where even a small clash could spark another round of civil...