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...Higdon in the box for a five-minute major penalty (his crime: a thunderous check from behind on a Clarkson player into the boards), the shorthanded unit was in the process of clearing out a loose puck in the middle of its defensive zone. Out of the blue, Clarkson sniper Todd White lunged through the crowd of players, swung around to his right and blindly swept the puck past a screened Tracy...
WATCHFUL COMMANDERS IN BOSNIA never tire of warning soldiers in their charge that there are any number of ways to meet death in the Balkans--and almost all come suddenly. It can sneak up from behind, directed by the cross hairs of a sniper's scope. It can clasp travelers in the muddy embrace of a collapsing mountain road. Or it can detonate from below--which is what happened at 3:45 p.m. last Saturday when Sergeant Donald Dugan, 38, of Belle Center, Ohio, reportedly manning a checkpoint near Tuzla, stepped to the side of the road and was killed...
...wounded when a grenade exploded in a Sarajevo street. A NATO official said the grenade was launched from the Serb-held suburb of Grbavica. The grenade struck a streetcar and tore a foot-wide hole in its roof as it was traveling down the Sarajevo's main boulevard, dubbed Sniper Alley during the war. NATO officials, who Monday pledged to use significant force if necessary to enforce Bosnia's peace, had no imediate response beyond condemning the incident. Although the Bosnian Serb news agency denied Serbs were to blame, Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey said the grenade attack was meant...
VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: NATO troops fired the first hostile gunfire of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission Friday as they defended a wounded Italian military engineer. Corporal Elio Sbordoni was shot in the arm by an unknown sniper who fired on a hotel complex housing Italian soldiers in Vogosca, a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The gunman escaped. NATO officials, who define a 'firing incident' as five or more shots fired in succession, are counting roughly 400 such incidents per day in Sarajevo...
Training exercises in Germany, held in bitter cold, have covered almost every conceivable situation: ambushes, sniper fire, 200 people identifying themselves as refugees trying to cross U.S. lines and begging for food and water. Be polite and non-confrontational but don't feed them, the troops are told. Some of the exercises have been carried out amid ear-shattering recorded noises of artillery fire. In land-mine-awareness lessons, troops are instructed never to take a short cut when navigating unfamiliar terrain and never to try to defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with...