Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO air-strikes, as the United Nations shrank under the pressure of the Serbian army. The Western world deplored the actions of the Serbian army as barbaric, but it could not formulate a coherent policy. As the despotic, maniacal Serbian General Ratko Mladic surrounds, strangles and slaughters one U.N. "safe area" after another, Western leaders quibbled...
...Croatian onslaught created a rift among NATO allies, who had only recently come together with a new, tougher policy toward the war in Bosnia. Earlier in the week the alliance had announced it would apply to all Bosnian "safe havens" the same rules it had already laid down for Gorazde--calling for pre-emptive air strikes if the areas are seriously threatened. By Thursday, the Serbs had apparently heeded the warning and pulled back...
Just days after the Croatian army broke the seige ofthe Bihac safe area, Serb forces appear ready to strike back. From Bihac, TIME's Edward Barnes reports that a massive combined force of Krajina and Bosnian Serbs is approaching the town from the south. Croat and Bosnian Muslim army officials expect a major battle for the area within the next few days...
Call me selfish but I much prefer belated knowledge or wrongdoing. If I had seen the videotape of the Serbian capture of the "safe haven" of Srebrenica, I might have been compelled to fly over there and take up arms. But as it is, regret is the best I can muster from reading yesterday's news...
Joshua A. Kaufman sent this dispatch from the safe haven of Roslyn, New York...