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...military policeman, Martin John Begosh of Rockville, Md., became the first American injured in the Bosnia peace mission when he drove over a land mine. But the mission is being delayed by a more powerful adversary than mines: Mother Nature. Efforts to build a pontoon bridge across the Sava River, so that the bulk of the U.S. deployment could proceed from Croatia into Bosnia, were swamped by the swollen river's floodwaters, which rose more than 5 ft. in 24 hours, sweeping away materiel, stranding trucks and soaking G.I.s...
Just getting into Bosnia is no easy job. The bridges across the Sava River between Croatia and Bosnia have either been destroyed by artillery fire or are shaky. So Army engineers will build two "float" bridges of steel, aluminum and Styrofoam; by Christmas, the spans should be ready for tanks to rumble across them. It will be quite a sight. The bridges will settle six to eight inches under the weight of the tanks, and water will come up above their tracks. It will look as if the tanks are gliding across on top of the currents...
Once across the Sava, the troops will move to the Tuzla area along narrow, twisting roads blanketed in snow. Worse, the roads, winding along the bottoms of valleys, are highly vulnerable to snipers on the surrounding mountains. Advance troops will have to scour the hills to make sure their comrades can move along the roads in safety. Finally, in and around Tuzla, they will occupy a 500-mile-long border area designed to separate Serb from Muslim and Croat forces, setting up checkpoints and patrols to make sure nobody crosses without legitimate business...
...worker who knew his way around gators quickly subdued it (ah, New York), assisted by a park ranger with a very big rubber band, which she promptly clamped over the gator's snout. City officials said it must have been a pet, since it was rather pale.Mladic photograph by Sava RadovanovicClinton photograph by Diana Walker for TIMEWu photograph by BBCGingrich photograph by Cynthia Johnson for TIMEMice photograph by John Sholtis Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
...more. Faced with blistering air and artillery attacks Tuesday, the defenders retreated over the last remaining Sava River bridge in Bosnia. Wednesday morning the bridge was blown up, leaving only a handful of towns in northern Bosnia still under the control of the Bosnian government...