Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite a couple of successful campaigns, the army of the Muslim-led Bosnian government always seemed to be the beleaguered combatant, retreating from Serb onslaughts, unable to recover the initiative. Thus, when the government ordered up to 15,000 of its troops to mass north and west of its besieged capital of Sarajevo, few expected anything dramatic-even after a nationwide state of alert was imposed and the populace was warned that something had to be done "to prevent an obvious catastrophe...
...after the shoot-down, did NATO planes flying over the region finally confirm that they were getting more extensive transmissions from what was thought to be O'Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes began swarming over the area. Other...
...using the "call sign" that signifies a particular plane and its pilot. "I'm alive; help." Hanford subsequently asked him to identify the name of the squadron in which he had served in Korea -- a question designed to ensure that O'Grady's message was not, in fact, a Serb trick. When he replied correctly, Hanford notified his superiors that he had made contact with O'Grady. Then he peeled away over the Adriatic to refuel. And for a few short moments, he let his emotions get the better of him. "It's hard to fly an airplane," he said...
...probably good," Berndt later said. "It took the edge off us, and it got everybody focused and thinking perhaps a little bit straighter." Then came the "push"-authorization from the awacs to enter Balkan airspace-and the mission was under way. Within minutes the aircraft had reached Bosnian Serb territory. At one point, Admiral William A. Owens, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Lake and said, "Our feet are dry," meaning they were flying over land. The sun was winking through the rugged, fog-draped Balkan terrain as the CH-53s spent the next 50 minutes flitting...
...officials expressed hope for a "new relationship" with theBosnian Serbsafter the last of more than 370peacekeeper hostageswere released. What sort of relationship depends on which side's account of the terms is accurate. The Serbs claim U.N. officials have pledged not to launch any more air strikes. The U.N. denies any linkage. U.N. troops have abandoned to Serb forces the heavy weapons depots around Sarajevo, andthe U.N.says it will work to re-establish supply routes for humanitarian aid to embattled Muslim enclaves. "Certainly this marks a retreat for the U.N.," saysTIME's Mark Thompson. "The question is, now that they...