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Netscape's Andreessen took Microsoft's entry as a challenge. "When there's battle between a bear and an alligator," he says, "what determines the victor is the terrain. Microsoft just moved into our terrain." Microsoft shrugs off such talk as bravado. "Java support is like a belly button," says Roger Heinen, vice president of Microsoft's software-developer division. "Everybody's going to have...
Because of the mountainous terrain, recovering victims was difficult and notification of some families was delayed for several days...
...until February. Army commanders strongly deny, however, that the buildup is slipping behind schedule. Says Colonel Mike Sullivan, chief spokesman for the U.S. Army, Europe: "Slow and gradual is exactly where we want to be. This is a very deliberate, precise process in vicious weather on a very unfavorable terrain, and we're very aware of that. We're not going to expose soldiers and their equipment to this until we're absolutely ready...
...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 a red bicycle flag and white tape so that, in the words of Sergeant First Class Charles Bradley, as he conducted an outdoor course in Schwetzingen, Germany, "even the dumbest guys in your...
This is a valid comparison. Much like Vietnam, Bosnia is a land foreign to American soldiers. It presents an unfamiliar terrain and adds to it a people with unfamiliar language and cultural traditions. The origin of the Bosnian conflict is largely alien to the average American GI, and the rationale behind American intervention is further hidden in ambiguity. In as much as Vietnam became the manifestation of George Kennan's containment doctrine, so has Bosnia become the symbol of America's ambivalent role as the global superpower. If not with Vietnam, then similar comparisons are provided by the military disaster...