Word: sarajevos
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...pictures of bomb-gutted buildings and bloody-faced civilians could have come from Sarajevo. Footage of burned corpses protruding from tank hatches might have been taken along the Highway of Death leading out of Kuwait. But there was something unnervingly different about the war in Chechnya, as a government turned its military might upon its own people and attempted, at terrible cost to its own soldiers, to level their capital city. For all the destruction and death, there was no victory to be had. David was defying Goliath, a Goliath that had held the world in fear for a half...
...keeping with the terms of thetruce signed on December 31, Bosnian Serbs agreed to end the blockade of Sarajevo this week, allowing food and supplies to reach its residents freely for the first time in months. The four-month old cease-fire now is holding for most of Bosnia with the sole exception of Bihac, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslim leaders continue to shell government-held areas. Sarajevo has been closed to civilian traffic since July...
...problem with the trip, but what if the Muslims attempted an assassination and blamed us?' " John Paul sent a personal envoy to Karadzic to get him to repeat the same thing to his face. He did. That indirect but personal threat -- together with the dangers facing the citizens of Sarajevo who would gather for a papal Mass -- scuttled the trip. "We thought of publishing the real reason why the trip could not take place," said Navarro. "But in the end we just said, 'We cannot...
...prophet would end prematurely. Five days later, John Paul summoned senior Curia officers to his summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo. "He was tired," said an official, "and obviously suffering with his hip." And then the Pope surprised his aides by declaring once again, "I have to go to Sarajevo. We must find some way to make these people stop killing each other." So much to do, so little time...
...tanks and armored vehicles, which the peacekeepers have vowed to take with them. The Serbs could fire down on the departing columns as they move along the mountain roads. Snipers and artillery could harass convoys ambushed at roadblocks. There are dozens of bridges and tunnels along the way from Sarajevo to the coast, all vulnerable to sabotage. NATO would fight back with armed helicopters, asserting control over localized chunks of the heights while the peacekeepers, protected by NATO tanks and artillery, slowly thread their way toward sanctuary. Mobile units would leapfrog from peak to peak, making for a slow, perilous...