Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equipped and ill-trained Shi'ite fighters have survived largely because of the protection offered by the terrain, with its floating reed islands and 20-ft. tall forests of papyrus and rushes. But once the swamps are dry, the rebels fear not only enemy tanks but also fires, which would push them into the arms of troops surrounding the perimeter. In February three blazes set by Iraqi barrages scorched several hundred square miles of marshland and destroyed dozens of villages...
...starving eastern town of Cerska, for example, Muslim foragers approached the airlift pallets at risk of being picked off by waiting Serb gunners. Coincidentally or not, Serb forces mounted withering attacks throughout the region, forcing thousands of civilians into frigid mountain terrain. Despite the airlift's pressure on the advancing Serbs to move pre- emptively, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher insisted that "we have no indication" it sparked the rout. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, however, raised the specter of a Serb "massacre" of Muslims. At week's end Serb commanders offered to allow safe passage to fleeing...
...stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says a skeptical Pentagon source, "would be lucky to hit Yugoslavia." Finding and hitting the drop zones in tightly surrounded enclaves only 5-to-10-miles wide, at night, in the poor weather and mountainous terrain of the region will be difficult, and there will be no trained personnel on the ground to help. Some of the aid could easily be stolen by Serb fighters or could fall in places where those who go to retrieve it might find themselves targets of snipers...
...something like this (in no particular order): it's a civil war, it's a quagmire, it's not our business. All these reasons have some validity. Citizens of the former Bosnian republic are fighting on both sides, so there are aspects of civil war involved. The mountainous terrain does give the conflict potential to last a long while. And Yugoslavia is a long way from the cozily isolated...
...ever darker and more daring. The fascinating ON THE OPEN ROAD, off-Broadway, justifies his persistence. It follows two men, one all icy mind and the other all fiery emotion, across an apocalyptic landscape amid civil war as they search for "the land of the free." Tesich knows his terrain: he grew up in Yugoslavia during and after World War II. Yet when his story turns to the abandonment of classical culture and moral absolutes in favor of nihilism, noise and expediency, he is plainly thinking about the U.S., where he has lived since...