Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearby mountains, NATO fighter- bombers hit Bosnian Serb positions just outside the capital for the fourth time since February in retaliation for attacks on U.N. peacekeeping troops. The NATO aircraft dropped bombs and directed cannon fire against a Bosnian Serb position seven miles west of 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...
...NATO tactic of occasionally spitting a bomb down here and there. The other day someone tallied up the damage that's been done until now: two old army trucks and a small hideout near Gorazde, a museum-quality half-track from World War II and, finally, a T- 55 tank. Three bombs, near Gorazde, didn't even explode. Before that, Karadzic's soldiers had shot down a Sea Harrier, also near Gorazde. While we aren't great tactical mathematicians here in Sarajevo, this seemed like a big price to pay for such little return...
Bosnian Serbs fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a French armored personnel carrier on U.N. peacekeeping duty outside Sarajevo, wounding a French soldier. In retaliation for that attack and three others by the Bosnian Serbs, three NATO jets destroyed a Bosnian Serb tank that had violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs...
While waiting for the outcome of the Carter mission, both sides speeded up preparations for a fight. Clinton spent part of Saturday in the Pentagon's secure "tank" reviewing details of the assault. Secretary of Defense William Perry assured the public that resistance, if any, from the Haitian armed forces could be overcome "in a matter of hours, at most a day or two." Even so, he added somberly, there would be casualties, both American and Haitian...
...would do better to encourage change on the island with economic incentives, as Washington has done with other communist holdouts like China and Vietnam. "All those congressional bills say, 'Unless you do what we want, we'll kick your ass,' " says Juan Antonio Blanco, director of a private think tank in Havana. "What we need is not threats but an offer of help...