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Sergeant Jacques Beaulieu and 10 fellow Canadian blue berets were manning a checkpoint and bunker at a bridge on the recently opened road between Sarajevo and Visoko, 20 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital. Seven feet away was a Serbian checkpoint; across the valley, about 100 yards off, other Canadians were posted near a similar post manned by Muslim troops of the Bosnian army. With minor variations, the arrangement is common along the battle lines throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...playwright Tony Kushner. The angel in his play in no way is meant to absolve humans of tough choices and hard spiritual work. "New Age theology says we live in a benign universe where all you have to do is ask an angel for help. This makes things like Sarajevo difficult to understand." Kushner is especially troubled by the suggestion that angels appear only to some people and not to others. "I find that horrendously offensive," he says. "The question is, why are you saved with your guardian angel and not the woman who was shot to death shielding...
...three opposing factions in Bosnia met to discuss a resolution to the 19- month-old war. A possible breakthrough came when Bosnia's Muslim-led government briefly considered a plan to partition Sarajevo (where the Serbs' continuing siege killed seven more people last week) in exchange for Serb land concessions in eastern Bosnia. The Serbs, however, were unwilling to give up territory...
...three or four decades of the 20th century has had profound consequences, to be sure. But in relative terms, it is no match for the waves that came ashore during the 19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people in search of better lives, America remains the ultimate lure...
Mostar's 16th century Old Bridge, one of the most exquisite examples of Ottoman architecture and a symbol of ethnic harmony in prewar Yugoslavia, was destroyed by Croatian gunners. Meanwhile, some of the deadliest shelling in weeks hit Sarajevo, killing at least 17 people, including several children at a school. The U.S. State Department warned that more than 4 million lives could be lost this winter because of the war, weather and disease...