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- <title>
- July 13, 1992: A Thin Ray of Hope In Sarajevo
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 13, 1992 Inside the World's Last Eden
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- A Thin Ray of Hope In Sarajevo
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- <p>U.N. troops secure the airport to open the way for relief flights
- </p>
- <p> The wall that Serbian forces had formed around the Bosnian
- capital of Sarajevo was pierced just enough to let in a ray of
- hope last week. More than 1,000 Canadian peacekeepers flying
- the United Nations flag rolled in through the mountains from
- Croatia to buttress a small U.N. force already in place. The
- troops and armored vehicles quickly cleared and reopened the
- airport that had been closed for 87 days by Serbian shelling and
- sniper fire.
- </p>
- <p> With that, a full-scale international relief effort got
- under way. Almost 100 tons of emergency supplies from the U.S.
- arrived in the first two days. Giant cargo planes also flew in
- from Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and other
- countries. The food and medicine were then trucked -- under
- Canadian guard -- into the desperate city of 400,000 people. In
- Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said American air
- and naval forces would be available if they are needed to
- protect the relief flights or future truck convoys.
- </p>
- <p> Relief shipments, welcome as they are, can be only a
- palliative. They do not end the siege of Sarajevo or the Serbian
- occupation of about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where
- Serbs make up less than a third of the population. A political
- settlement is still out of sight, but Britain's tireless Lord
- Carrington, the European Community's mediator, returned to
- Sarajevo last week in a futile attempt to restart the stalled
- peace talks.
- </p>
- <p> Serbia may be signaling that it is ready to consider a
- more moderate approach. En route to Belgrade to take up the
- post of Prime Minister of Yugoslavia was Milan Panic, 62, an
- American pharmaceutical manufacturer born in Serbia. Panic
- (pronounced Pahn-ich), summoned by the Yugoslav government to
- try to improve links with the outside world, had to obtain
- permission from the U.S. government to break the sanctions
- barring all contact with Belgrade. Panic said he sees his
- assignment as an effort to make peace and bring an end to the
- U.N. sanctions.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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