Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a mortar shell killed 68 people in the Sarajevo marketplace three weeks ago, it shook the rest of the world as well. After 22 months of hand wringing and empty threats, NATO finally responded with an ultimatum. While the Serbs were finding it politic to negotiate a deal with the new U.N. ground commander, British Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, the prospect of NATO action moved an anxious Russia -- caught between loyalty to fellow Orthodox Slavs and its interests in cooperating with the West -- to intervene. Air strikes would have forced Boris Yeltsin to risk the wrath of Russian...
...unusual for students to shell out three hundred dollars for books at the beginning of each semester; maybe even more for those concentrating in the humanities. But if you think you've got it bad, just ask someone who is concentrating in Romance Languages, German, Slavic Studies...anyone, in fact, who is taking classes with required books in other languages. For them, the semester beings with a visit to Schoenhof's Foreign Books, located on 76A Mount Auburn St. Sure, they don't have to wait in those impossibly long lines at the Coop, but the price they...
...stop the slaughter. Only a month ago, a disgusted State Department official had summed up President Clinton's strategy: "The object of U.S. policy is to keep Bosnia out of the headlines. Every day it's not in the news is another day of success." The 120-mm shell that hit the market made that policy a thundering failure and raised embarrassing questions: If even this could not move Clinton and the leaders of Western Europe to act, would anything do so? If not, how could anyone believe anything they said ever again...
...prodded Christopher into asking his aides to review the options again. By the time they arrived home from the summit, they had drafted a plan to invigorate the Geneva talks backed by a threat of military action against the Serbs. But the emphasis was on diplomacy -- until the mortar shell struck the market. Then, says one official, "the use of force became a first priority...
...there are fewer familiar faces. A year ago, days and even weeks would go by before you heard about someone you knew who was killed by a sniper's bullet or a shell. Now this kind of news comes every day. That's precisely why it would be so nice to build that fountain by the cathedral, full of water and light. And to be happy, smiling and optimistic, just the way we have already been envisioned by all those who carry out great decisions and great ultimatums in the name of historical happiness...