Word: serb
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...Marines from Camp Lejeune have arrived in the Adriatic Sea, and now await adecision by the Clinton Administration on whether to send them into Bosnia. The White House said it "would not rule out" ground action to release the nearly 400 UN hostages currently held by Bosnian Serb forces. ButTIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays sending the 24th Marine Amphibious Expeditionary Unit after the hostages is highly unlikely. "In the first place, it's an amazingly difficult mission to expect these Marines to find 400 people in these mountains where the Serbs have lived for hundreds of years." More important, according...
...first air raid ofBosnian Serbssince last November,NATOwarplanes bombed an ammunition depot near the Bosnian Serb headquarters of Pale, in an attempt to force the Serbs to end their siege of Sarajevo. The planes, including some from the U.S., carried out the raid several hours after a deadline had passed for the Serbs to stop their shelling of Sarajevo and return heavy weapons toU.N. control. There were no casualties reported in the attack, and it did not appear to discourage the Serbs. Minutes after the ammunition dump went up in flames, Serb soldiers sent several mortar rounds into Sarajevo. After...
...rocket attack on Zagreb, the Croatian capital of 1 million people, was the last stage in a classic round of Balkan escalation. It began on April 28 when a Croat stabbed an ethnic Serb motorist to death at a gas station along the highway linking Zagreb to eastern Croatia and Serbia. That crucial route runs through two of the four "U.N.-protected areas" that roughly correspond to the self-proclaimed "Republic of Serb Krajina" in Croatia. The Serbs answered the killing by blocking off the highway and slaying three Croatian drivers...
...total of 7,200 army and police troops into Sector West, as the U.N. calls it, from two sides. After a little more than 30 hours, the government proclaimed success in liberating the road and an adjacent railway line, and within two more days had subdued the last Serb pockets of resistance throughout the sector. The Croats reported a total of 42 dead among their forces and estimated Serb losses at between 350 and 450 men. In a televised address to the nation, a triumphant Croatian President Franjo Tudjman boasted of a "swift and great" victory carried...
...battle does not mean a lost war," Krajina Serb "President" Milan Martic told a group of militiamen on Wednesday. "We have already responded to what Tudjman has done to you here; we bombed their cities yesterday and today. We did it for you." Nor is the tone conciliatory on the streets of Zagreb. "We should set up tents at every street corner for the Serbs who live here," suggested Ivan Palcic, 53. "That way they'll be killed when [the Serbs] attack and not us [Croats...