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...shelling by bedding down on couches and mattresses crammed onto landings of the central concrete stairwell. By day, when the barrage eases, they forage for food. But hunger has become a secondary consideration in the face of the almost constant bombardment, now well into its fourth month, by Serb forces firing from the surrounding hillsides. All day, every day, the talk in the building hallways is of Western military intervention or, failing that, distribution of weapons so that the 300,000 people of Sarajevo can repel the onslaught with their own hands. "The liberation of the town is more important...
...106th Wimbledon tennis championships promised several Cinderella stories but delivered none. Old-timers Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe got as far as the semifinals, then were whipped. And Monica Seles, the steamrolling Serb with a shot at a Grand Slam sweep, got to the finals but lost in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, to defending champion Steffi Graf...
...Ingush and Yakut are demanding either greater autonomy within the Russian Federation or full independence. In many areas, though, ethnic groups are so thoroughly mixed that it is impossible to draw neat border lines between their respective turfs. Any attempt to do so only creates new minority problems: a Serb minority in Croatia, for example, instead of a Croat minority in a Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. That leads at best to severe tensions, at worst to savage wars between peoples who once lived in peace...
WHAT WILL IT REQUIRE, SHORT OF SENDING IN THE U.S. Air Force, to halt Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina? Clearly it will take measures sterner than the U.N. economic sanctions imposed three weeks ago. Defiant Serb gunners last week turned the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into hell on earth, killing at least 30 people and injuring hundreds more. Thousands of shells blasted buildings and crashed into streets, terrorizing the 300,000 remaining residents, who mostly cowered in basement shelters. Sarajevo TV broadcast what appeared to be a military radio message from Serbian General Ratko Mladic, intercepted less than two weeks...
Nonsense, replied Western diplomats in Yugoslavia. The Serb-dominated federal army left behind 80,000 Serb troops when it made a show of pulling out of Bosnia in May. Belgrade armed them and dispatched Mladic to command them. If Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic wants to call them back, the diplomats say, all he has to do is whistle...