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...deployment of U.S. troops to Bosnia. In Sarajevo, where Bosnian Serb forces blocked U.N.-escorted convoys and protesters took to the streets, the strain of holding the peace is already showing in the Balkans. "The Bosnian Serbs have lost the peace," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "They will yell and they will scream, and then they will move on." In Paris, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports that France has stepped up its threat against the Serb captors of two French pilots shot down over Bosnia in August, hinting strongly that they might hold up the signing of the peace accords...
...were frazzled, sensibilities were hurt and resentments flared. Holbrooke, who is credited with being the locomotive of the talks, operated with gradations of anger. "He frequently used words that are not quotable," says a European diplomat who was there. "I don't think there is anyone Holbrooke didn't yell at at least once...
...newest targets: "I'm perfectly willing to take my hits if I'm caught doing something stupid. The problem is that some of these guys aren't professional videographers; they're a bunch of kids with videocams who try and force you into a confrontation. They'll push and yell volatile things like, 'Hey, George, who's the fat chick?' Or I'm walking with a guy, they ask, 'Is that your gay lover?' And as soon as you say, 'Why, you son of a bitch!' they sell it to Hard Copy...
That outcome would appall Larry Miller, a white man who owns a Chicago hot-dog stand. "If white people yell racism, we're bigots. If a black person yells it, it has to be true. I've never known racism to be an excuse for murder...
...Bosnian Serbs, might have caused my venom to rise to near-O.J. levels. But a printed account allows me to nod in agreement, concur that these men should have been captured earlier and that they are wrong. If I saw it on TV, though, I might yell at these slimebags and call for our government to crush them. Thank god for my health that the cable broke...