Word: sarajevos
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...then last Monday the Serbs' shell landed in Sarajevo . Riding to work that morning, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who was running the State Department while Christopher was vacationing, heard the first radio report of the shelling. Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Defense William Perry and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were also on vacation; Washington was being run by deputies. While the President monitored events from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Talbott convened an 8 a.m. meeting in his office, certain that what he faced was "a test of the London rules," according...
...Paris preparing to embark for Belgrade to meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Talking on their secure line, Talbott and Holbrooke concluded that the U.S.plan would have no credibility if Washington stood by and allowed the shelling to go unpunished. Talbott then telephoned the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo requesting confirmation that the mortar attack had come from the Bosnian Serbs. By 1 p.m. Washington time the embassy had reported back: it appeared certain that Bosnian Serbs were responsible...
...main sticking points include the fate of Gorazde, the remaining enclave that the Bosnian government holds in the east. It is the "safe area" that the London meeting vowed in particular to protect, but it would be isolated in Serb territory. Another potential stumbling block concerns partitioning Sarajevo to allow the Serbs to control a part of the capital. The Bosnian Serbs made this a condition of their turning over negotiating authority to Milosevic, but the Bosnian government rules...
...once Bill Clinton could get angry about bosnia without feeling helpless. The President was outraged when he first learned about the carnage in the Sarajevo market last Monday. On the phone from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he was vacationing, he told his National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, that if, as expected, the Bosnian Serbs were found to be responsible, nato would have to retaliate. By shelling Sarajevo, he said, the Serbs were daring the Western alliance--and specifically the U.S.-to live up to its recent promise to answer such attacks with substantial air strikes. "This absolutely requires a response...
...wounded 88 more--NATO decisively entered the Bosnian war. In the largest mission of the alliance's 46-year history, NATO aircraft flew more than 500 sorties over 48 hours, bombing Serb targets in several parts of the country, including Serb headquarters in Pale. The besieged residents of Sarajevo, who have long felt abandoned by the West, shouted with joy from their balconies as they listened to the bombs fall near by. The only NATO casualty: a French Mirage, shot down by Serb gunners; the fate of the two airmen, who were seen ejecting from the jet, is unknown...