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Those were the reflections of Ferid Durakovic the day after a Serb mortar shell landed near his food store in Sarajevo last week, killing 43 people and wounding more than 80. Others recalled hands and feet tossed among odd bits of clothing, torsos strewn amid fresh vegetables, wet scraps of flesh clinging to the stone walls of nearby buildings. It was another savage attack on a city that has seen too many, and everyone in Sarajevo knew it would go unavenged, like all the rest...
Another wave of NATO bombardment today failed to persuade Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb army commander, to withdraw about 300 tanks, mortars and other heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. The general's defiance immediately generated international rumors that a rift had emerged between Mladic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who is negotiating a peace settlement on all Serbs' behalf. But foreign affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels reports that Mladic is acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral...
NATO warplanes have resumed airstrikes against Bosnian Serb positions after the Serbs missed a deadline Monday to withdraw all heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. "If the bombardment continues," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller, "the Bosnian Serbs might not come to the Geneva peace talks on Friday." The U.N. had demanded that over 300 artillery pieces and tanks be pulled out of the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the city, but as of today, only about 20 weapons appeared to have been withdrawn. (The Serbs say they need more time, fearing that a complete withdrawal would leave their brethren...
...Washington's blueprint works, and that remained dicey, the rough disposition of peoples that is now a fait accompli, thanks to the Croatian army's blitz through the Serb-held Krajina region, would serve as defensible territories for coexistence. One thorn in this rose may really sting the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo: a suggested abandonment of Gorazde, the remnant republic's last outpost in the east, in exchange for Serb concessions of greater breathing space around Sarajevo itself. In turn, the U.S. would lead its allies in committing substantial reconstruction aid to Bosnia and, most important, some...
...crisscrossing trails of tears underscored how fundamentally kindred--in most important respects, all but indistinguishable--are the various Yugoslavs who wage this "domestic fury." One sign of tempered passions was the purge of Banja Luka, a comfortable seat of mixed traditions before the war. Chastened Bosnian Serb forces carried out ethnic purification here with a new twist: allowing some 5,000 Croats and Muslims to leave peaceably...