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There were also prolonged exchanges of artillery around three other towns north and east of Sarajevo, leading some military analysts to suspect that the Bosnian-government forces were trying to stretch the Serb defenders as thin as possible, probing for a weak point to exploit. They made progress in places, and U.N. observers said they had cut some Serb supply routes...
...hope the U.N. peacekeeping mission can hang on long enough to help produce a negotiated settlement, which some experts believe might finally be possible. The Serbs have held their 1,000-mile-long front lines for three years, and their field army of up to 80,000 is stretched thin. The Bosnian government's forces lack heavy weaponry but have grown to about 150,000 troops. "The Bosnian Serbs are overextended," U.S. General John Galvin, the former NATO commander, said in Washington last week, "and they are outnumbered." Still, they have artillery. Norman Cigar, a military analyst at the Marine...
...Many of the great problems we face today have their origin in the fact that this global civilization is not more than a thin veneer over the sum total of human awareness," Havel said. "I do not believe in some universal key or panacea...
...about early Britain starring dirty men in kilts (See "Robin Hood," "Rob Roy," and "Highlander" 1 and 2) seem to be popular these days, so Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" comes as no surprise. Gibson tackles this feature as director, producer, and starring actor. He's evidently spreading himself too thin, because although the movie begins promisingly, it soon grows dull and repetitious, relying on old Hollywood tactics to reel in its audience...
...Indictment begins with an ominous message-"This story happened in America in our times''-and has the sanctimonious tone of people who think they are discovering a horrid injustice for the first time. Indeed, Indictment makes its point far less subtly and effectively than such nonfiction works as The Thin Blue Line or the Frontline documentaries, which examined court cases that had been less thoroughly hashed over than the McMartin case. Still, for all its journalistic pretensions, Indictment is powerful and affecting television...