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...comments Bryce Nelson, interim chairman of the University of Southern California school of journalism and a former L.A. Times reporter. At New York Newsday, some staff members are bitter because they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer, a New York Newsday columnist who was unsuccessful in negotiating an employee buyout...
...only one of many prospective problems. All the armed factions -- Bosnian, Croat and Serb -- have attacked the peacekeepers in the past, and could assault the retreating troops. The two-lane roads thread through mountains, giving an edge to those seeking to frustrate the pullout. Masses of refugees, fearing slaughter once the U.N. forces leave, would also hamper an operation. "The Muslims know that once the pullout is over, genocide is just around the corner," a Pentagon official says. "Hundreds of thousands will jam the roads, impeding our exit -- it's just going to be chaos." Serbs and Croats might also...
...motive. "The answer is simple: anger." He also chided the FBI for being "surprisingly incompetent" and denied that an April mail bomb, which killed a lobbyist for California's timber industry, had been triggered by the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. "We strongly deplore the kind of indiscriminate slaughter that occurred in the Oklahoma City event," read Unabomber's letter to the Times-blithely sidestepping the fact that last week's threat to blow up a passenger plane is perhaps the ultimate indiscrimination...
...high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like pangolins or armadillos and make sure that our soft underbellies were not exposed for either inspection or slaughter...
Unable to talk the warring factions into ending their slaughter and unwilling to use force to stop them, the allies are sending additional troops to protect those already in Bosnia. It is a prescription for paralysis, and possibly disaster...