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...military escorts of humanitarian convoys, thereby making it almost impossible to supply aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia. They continued to block the Sarajevo airport and prevent deliveries of fuel to the U.N. mission. "The calculated attacks have never been as bad as now," said U.N. spokesman Paul Risley, "and our ability to carry out our peacekeeping mission has never been as crippled...
...within 24 hours. By Saturday, four civilians had been killed by Bosnian Serb snipers in Sarajevo, two American aid workers had been taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs outside Sarajevo, and a helicopter flying to pick up U.N. Commander Lieut. General Michael Rose was struck by Serb gunfire. Said U.N. spokesman Risley: "There is absolutely no change...
John Paul was not in Cairo, but he kept in constant touch with his delegation. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls recalls the Pope's reaction to Paragraph 8.25: "He feared that for the first time in the history of humanity, abortion was being proposed as a means of population control. He put all the prestige of his office at the service of this issue." For nine days the Vatican delegates, under his direction, lobbied and filibustered; they kept their Latin American bloc in line and struck up alliances with Islamic nations opposed to abortion. In the end, the Pope...
...vehicle, after Capitol police sources reported death threats against him since Republicans took control of Congress Nov. 8. Gary Abrecht, the federal police department's chief, wrote Gingrich Dec. 19, urging him "in the strongest terms" to always use a secure vehicle driven by trained security personnel. A Gingrich spokesman today denied a New York Daily News report that his boss would ride in an armored car, but said he would accept a vehicle like a minivan, "the sort of car that shuttles kids to soccer games across America." BTW: Outgoing Speaker Thomas Foley, who had similar security arrangements, also...
...advanced, and after Corniel lunged, the officer fired twice, wounding him in the chest and right leg. (Corniel was in critical condition late this afternoon.) But the Park Police, who defended the shooting, released a videotape of the confrontation's final moments, basically affirming the accounts of eyewitnesses. A spokesman denied the police were more likely to fire because of two recent shootings at the mansion -- when Francisco Martin Duran allegedly sprayed it with semiautomatic gunfire Oct. 29 and last weekend, when someone apparently fired toward the White House from the nearby Ellipse. "I don't think they were more...