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...Speaking to diplomats in Zagreb by telephone from Washington, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, said he had "a preliminary report" that Zepa had fallen, according to the Associated Press. Under the terms of surrender, Barnes says, the Serbs will move about 30 heavily-wounded Muslim residents to Sarajevo on Thursday. Though the Serbs reportedly captured, killed or tortured men in their conquest of Srebrenica, the other "safe area," last week, they have promised to move all Zepa residents to the nearby town of Klandanj. That pledge may be meaningless: "The soldiers will try and escape," Barnes says...
...military commitment in Bosnia by transporting European U.N. troop reinforcements into the war zone. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says the White House has already voiced doubts that the 1,000 U.S. soldiers sought by Europe would suffice. Instead, he says, "the U.S. is likeliest to reinforce Sarajevo instead and try to break the siege there. It's the least militarily risky option and the most likely to succeed...
European Union peace mediator Carl Bildt unpeacefully departed Sarajevo today in a hail of bullets and shells. TheUnited Nationsblamed the Serbs for the attacks on Bildt's car and U.N. helicopter. No one was hurt...
...Poturak sustained herself with a single vision: she wanted to take her young son for a walk in the neighborhood and, without having to be afraid of mortars or snipers, board a tram. When Wednesday's shell sent a piece of shrapnel into her right thigh, Poturak realized that Sarajevo has become a place where wishes as simple as hers are extravagant. Her sentiments are now the despairing antithesis of those expressed by so many Sarajevans only days before. "I don't think our army will ever liberate us," she said. "It is impossible. There is no way to free...
...Bosnia single-handedly. At least that is what American movies would have us believe. But reality is something different. Watching NATO and the U.N. tiptoe around the Serbs makes me wonder, Should I feel extremely lucky to be alive, since I left my hometown of Sarajevo? I guess so. The Serbs can do whatever they please, whenever they please and to whomever they please. Taking 400 hostages is quite a task, and shooting down an American jet is crazily brave. The world is showing me that Serbia is the most powerful nation on earth, and I have managed to escape...