Word: sarajevos
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...first afternoon of the recent offensive in which the Bosnian government massed more than 15,000 soldiers and began pushing against the Serbian lines near Sarajevo, the people of the city huddled in their apartments and waited. Some listened to explosions from the battlefields. Others attended to their battery-run radios. For hours the state-controlled media gave no information. Then at 3 p.m., listeners received the news: the government forces were advancing. All Sarajevo seemed to lift with joy. Radios were placed on windowsills so that music could fill the streets. Bottles of brandy were brought out for toasts...
...hopes of the Sarajevans crashed to earth. In a matter of days, they had experienced an almost unbearable sequence of despair, euphoria and finally the immensely disheartening realization that it would take far more than a single battle to free their city from the Serbs' embrace. The story of Sarajevo in that period shows a city at the breaking point, bent cruelly back and forth...
...certain that more of them will improve their circumstances. Three weeks after the Bosnian Serbs had taken hundreds of peacekeepers hostage, they were still holding 26 of them prisoner and confining 91 others at their posts. In the process of eliminating the U.N. role around Sarajevo, the Serbs started using several hundred artillery pieces and mortars the U.N. had placed under guard at collection points around Sarajevo. What came as a surprise last week was that Bosnian government forces joined so eagerly in the abuse of UNPROFOR. They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where Canadians were posted, and disarmed a Russian...
BATTLE FOR SARAJEVO BEGINS...
...Muslim-dominated Bosnian army launched its largest offensive in the war against secessionist Serbs, combining forces with Bosnian Croats to attack Serb troops who have besieged Sarajevo for the past 38 months. The combined Bosnian-Croat thrust advanced on three fronts; in response, the Serbs pounded the city with artillery. The fighting did not stop the wedding of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's daughter Sonja from taking place in nearby Pale on Saturday...