Word: zagreb
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...Ministry sources toldTIME's Edward Barnesthat Serbs have captured the beseiged mountain enclave of Zepa, the second U.N. "safe area" targeted inthe rebels' violent march through the Muslim region. The sources told Barnes that Muslim civilians -- rather than army units -- in the town had surrendered. Speaking to diplomats in Zagreb by telephone from Washington, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, said he had "a preliminary report" that Zepa had fallen, according to the Associated Press. Under the terms of surrender, Barnes says, the Serbs will move about 30 heavily-wounded Muslim residents to Sarajevo on Thursday. Though the Serbs...
...Taking 400 hostages is quite a task, and shooting down an American jet is crazily brave. The world is showing me that Serbia is the most powerful nation on earth, and I have managed to escape it and stay alive while it laughs in everybody's face. Bozana Benic Zagreb...
...REPORTED BY EDWARD BARNES/NOVI SAD, MASSIMO CALABRESI/ ZAGREB, J.F.O. MCALLISTER/WASHINGTON, MARGUERITE MICHAELS/NEW YORK AND BRUCE VAN VOORST/NOORDWIJK
...does TIME's whole brave Balkans team, which last week also included correspondents Ed Barnes in Belgrade and Massimo Calabresi in Zagreb and reporter Alexandra Stiglmayer in Sarajevo. Calabresi, our chief Central European correspondent, just took over the post from James L. Graff, who has moved to the Chicago bureau after three years of dangerous assignments in Bosnia. At times during his tour of duty, Graff drove through sniper fire in an unarmored "soft" car, and once he was held hostage overnight by mujahedin, foreign Islamic soldiers working with Bosnian Muslims. Says Graff: "The thing to do is make sure...
...this in Croatia, which the U.N. liked to consider a tenuous success compared to the ongoing debacle in Bosnia. The attack on Zagreb marked a new nadir of humiliation for U.N. peacekeepers, who were variously ignored by attacking Croats, taken hostage by Krajina Serbs and dropped into the midst of a fire fight when they returned to the sector on Thursday under the scant cover of a U.N.-declared cease-fire. U.N. special representative Yasushi Akashi, who is head of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operation in the former Yugoslavia, managed after the second round of rockets to engineer a cease...