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...Sarajevo; they destroyed a tank. The NATO action was authorized after two French soldiers were wounded in four separate attacks. The peacekeepers had placed themselves between opposing Bosnian Serb and Bosnian government troops when heavy fighting broke out Sept. 18 in the Sarajevo suburb of Sedrenik. Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, the British commander of U.N. forces in Bosnia, blamed the besieged government forces for having provoked the battle and warned that they, like the Serbs, would face a NATO reaction if they violated the cease-fire...
...need prayers. We're only waiting to see how the commander of the U.N. troops, Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, will bomb Sarajevo. After all, he's been told that this is part of the objective of his mandate, as if the violations of the cease-fire by poorly armed Bosnian government forces could ever equal the massive firepower of Karadzic's forces surrounding the city. Everything must be done to make us equal with those besieging us on the hills. This means that the whole story of genocide, of blame and aggression must be dismantled completely; then we have...
...Jefferson City, Missouri, lockup for robbing an armored car, but his career really gets going when he and a rodeo cowboy named George Birdwell both try, by storyteller's coincidence, to rob the Earlsboro, Oklahoma, bank at the same time. Meeting cute is what Hollywood calls this: "'Sir, I was here first -- had my gun out before you even got to the teller's window,' the cowboy pointed out. 'That was 'cause I was polite and held the door for you,' Charley reminded...
James Clavell, the best-selling author of "Shogun" died in Switzerland from a stroke. He was 69. Aside from being a successful novelist, the Australian-born Clavell also wrote the screenplay of popular movies such as "The Fly," "The Great Escape," and "To Sir With Love...
From high atop a massive bald rock called the Voltzberg, visitors to Suriname can look in awe at the same sight that greeted explorer Sir Walter Raleigh 400 years ago: an emerald forest that seemingly stretches to infinity in all directions. Even though the world has 11 times as many humans as it did in Raleigh's day, the north coast of South America still contains one of the largest unbroken tracts of tropical forest left in the world. Fewer than 50,000 people live in a natural kingdom larger than California that encompasses nearly all of Suriname, Guyana...