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SARAJEVO: In the worst attack since the October 12 truce in Bosnia, one man was killed and at least 19 others wounded when a grenade exploded in a Sarajevo street. A NATO official said the grenade was launched from the Serb-held suburb of Grbavica. The grenade struck a streetcar and tore a foot-wide hole in its roof as it was traveling down the Sarajevo's main boulevard, dubbed Sniper Alley during the war. NATO officials, who Monday pledged to use significant force if necessary to enforce Bosnia's peace, had no imediate response beyond condemning the incident. Although...
...EIGHT MONTHS, RUSSIAN TROOPS and armor pounded the breakaway Chechen republic into rubble. Then for nearly four months an uneasy peace reigned, after Islamic rebels agreed to a truce on July 30 that few expected to last. Last week the doomsayers looked fairly prophetic, as huge bomb blasts wracked the capital of Grozny and narrowly missed killing Moscow's handpicked political leader...
Neither side observes the truce, which required the Russians to pull back troops and rebels to hand in their weapons. The Russians regularly shell villages they suspect of harboring resistance fighters, and only a few villages have disarmed. So far, tens of thousands of soldiers, rebels and civilians have been killed in this conflict, and the number, once again, is rising...
...BOSNIAN TRUCE HOLDS...
...warring parties in Bosnia silenced their guns--with some major exceptions--two days after a cease-fire was due to take effect (the truce was held up until gas and electricity connections could be restored to the besieged capital of Sarajevo). Shortly before the scheduled start of the cease-fire, the Serbs bombarded a U.N.-declared "safe area," killing a Norwegian peacekeeper and prompting a NATO air strike against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women...