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...book begins with a tragedy--the death of three of Holbrooke's colleagues when their vehicle fell into a ravine on Mount Igman on the team's first visit to Sarajevo. This traumatic event permeates the narrative--a grim reminder that great enterprises may demand great sacrifices. Holbrooke's frantic pre-Dayton shuttle often took him to three countries in a single day. Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy. The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally...
...that Holbrooke believed to be indispensable to the start of a serious negotiating process. Later, NATO troops under Smith's command, reflecting his narrow view of IFOR responsibilities, simply looked on as the thugs of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic forcibly evicted the Serbs who wished to remain in Sarajevo and then burned their houses--a major setback to the creation of a multiethnic state in Bosnia...
...business on its way to video, wasn't credible and could get you burned on a field trip. As one studio publicist warned the visiting teachers, better to assign an old pay-per-view Dances with Wolves than send your kids to a dead-on-arrival Welcome to Sarajevo...
...Welcome to Sarajevo War-loving, war weary, a journalist rescues an orphan from the Bosnian chaos but can't explain his sudden fall into grace. Michael Winterbottom's film dares to suggest that small acts of goodness cannot stem the vast tides of historical tragedy. In movies, that's an unexpected--and sobering--perspective...
Clinton's Sarajevo Stopover The President delivered his bad news to the troops in person ? they won?t be home any time soon. To head off political criticism, he took along Bob and Liddy Dole ? and Chelsea. Full Story...