Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the seeming calm on the military front, hundreds of nervous Bosnian Serbs were packing up and fleeing Sarajevo in anticipation of Bosnian Muslims taking control of the city beginning January 19. It is unclear how significant this movement is, says Alexandra Niksic, because many of those lining the roads were carting furniture rather than clothes and essentials. There were some reports of houses being burned as they left, but so far no accounts of violence. The fear, says Alexandra Niksic, is being fanned by Bosnian Serb leaders who remain beligerently opposed to the terms of the Dayton accord which...
...supports a local campaign to have the U.S. Justice Department investigate. Indeed, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked her civil rights division to review the case under laws against misusing public office to deprive citizens of their due-process rights; a report is due after Christmas. But it is unclear whether the proofs necessary to convict Perez and others are available in Wenatchee. A state appeals court may free those who were jailed. But no court can effect the rebuilding of shattered lives and families...
...some faculty and students say they are concerned by the possibility of amplification, saying the hoped-for effects are unclear...
...novel lacks a certain resolution, the character of Sabbath makes spectacular progress in the 48 hours around which the story--like dart-a-cars set up in the dining room--swoops in its looping trajectory. Whether Sabbath, wronged and wronging, bitter and bold and mean can go on is unclear. Roth has corralled a teeming, obscene, dwindling life, and that is enough...
Kovach said that the instructions were a little unclear. "It first asked for a person of the millennium and then changed it to the person of the century," he said. "They have given us no instructions at all except to choose a person that might provide for an interesting discussion...