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...grim image ought not to fade. As he arrived in Norway, luger Igor Boras confronted video of the assault on a marketplace in his hometown: 69 people died and more than 200 were injured in that worst attack yet on civilians in Sarajevo. A decade ago in that beautiful pastel city, everyone in the world was young and strong and fearless, sporting and peaceful and clean. Back then, so long ago, the harshest stories being told were of how much one had to pay for a beer...
...just sit idly by and watch it happen." Between then and now, about all that's happened is that the number of idle threats has come to rival the death toll. But I really mean it this time, Clinton insists: If the Serbs don't cease their strangulation of Sarajevo, fire will rain from the air next week -- more than five months after the very same pledge was first uttered by NATO last August...
What made the mortar shell that burst in Sarajevo's central market that Saturday morning different from the innumerable other rounds that have slammed into the Bosnian capital over the previous 22 months? "Strategically it meant nothing," says a senior U.S. diplomat. But the grisly footage broadcast round the globe showing 68 people blown to bits while peacefully shopping made for peculiarly revolting television. The timing of the attack, seemingly planned to kill the greatest possible number of innocent civilians, dramatized the brutality of the war all over again to a world populace that had grown benumbed to reports...
...market images prompted a Western outcry that this time the Serbs had gone too far, that U.S. credibility was at stake, and that the NATO alliance was in jeopardy. Something had to be done. The answer last week was an ultimatum to the Serbs to stop shelling Sarajevo or face allied bombs. But haven't we heard all that before...
...film was also shown which vividly portrayedthe current situation in Sarajevo, comparing it toten years ago when it hosted the 1984 WinterOlympics...