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Some may remember the recent image of that seven-year-old boy who was hit in the face by a sniper's bullet in the middle of Sarajevo, holding on to his mother's hand as they ran past a U.N. armored personnel carrier. As the boy lay dying, his face was turned toward the asphalt, his left hand raised to his head, soaked in his blood. His name was Nermin Divovic. He wasn't killed by surprise, by a shell. He was sought out by a Serb sniper who waited, got him into his telescopic sights, looked...
...hospitals in Zagreb, Croatia -- were part of the contingent of 1,200 poorly equipped Bangladeshis in Bihac who are completely surrounded by advancing Serb forces. Croatian Serbs sent guided missiles at the U.N. armed personnel carrier; when other U.N. troops tried to rescue the soldiers, they came under sniper fire. But as they blew hot in Bihac, Serbs allowed the first fuel shipment in weeks to reach U.N. forces in Sarajevo.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
None of those frenzied maneuvers did anything to stop the war. The Serbs hardly broke stride on their march to Bihac, and the battle went very much according to their plan. They hit Sarajevo with artillery and sniper fire and confined more than 275 blue helmets to their barracks around Sarajevo, turning them into virtual hostages. Determined to crush the Fifth Corps of the Muslim- led Bosnian army based at Bihac, the Serbs bombarded the town for days, driving most of its army defenders and 70,000 civilians into basements and shelters. Ground troops then pressed into the zone...
...world didn't seem to care about what was happening to them the Bostonians always held out hope that the Americans would come to their aid. "We are waiting for Clinton!" shouted a Sarajevo hospital worker several months ago as she tended to one of the thousands of sniper victims. Now that hope has been firmly dashed. The U.S., which had been hedging for months, has decided to turn a cold shoulder on Bosnia...
...their uniforms and melting into the civilian populace. But that could have been in preparation to fight rather than to give up; some Haitian Americans insisted that if it came to war, Cedras and others would hide in the mountains to conduct a guerrilla campaign against U.S. troops, concentrating sniper fire on white soldiers. Some Haitians even maintained that the voodoo gods were on their side: they had sent Frank Corder's plane to crash into the White House lawn last Monday as a warning, and followed up by telling Clinton he must try to work things out with Cedras...