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- <text id=92TT1962>
- <title>
- Aug. 31, 1992: Can Bosnia Be Fixed With a Hammer?
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 31, 1992 Woody Allen: Cries and Whispers
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- WORLD
- Can Bosnia Be Fixed With a Hammer?
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Military force may be used. But how--and how much--is
- undecided.
- </p>
- <p> Although the U.N. Security Council has approved the use of
- force to protect aid shipments to Bosnia-Herzegovina, no one has
- yet figured out precisely how to do it. U.N. forces in Sarajevo
- are caught in the middle--a Ukrainian soldier was killed by a
- sniper last week--and the major powers are reluctant to let
- their troops get involved.
- </p>
- <p> When a British Hercules transport plane heading away from
- Sarajevo was tracked by ground-based radar, U.N. peacekeepers
- on the ground responded by closing the airport. It reopened two
- days later but closed briefly on Saturday after mortar fire hit
- the U.N. headquarters.
- </p>
- <p> Bosnian and Serb leaders also signed an agreement to place
- the artillery of both sides under U.N. supervision to pinpoint
- who is responsible for shelling civilian areas. General Satish
- Nambiar of India, who was heading the U.N. forces, publicly
- doubted that his 1,500-man contingent was large enough to
- monitor the long-range weapons. In any case, the agreement did
- not take effect, and Sarajevo continued to suffer nighttime
- bombardment from the surrounding hills.
- </p>
- <p> In Brussels the NATO allies are still debating their role
- in case force must be used to deliver aid to Bosnia. NATO
- military experts had proposed using 100,000 troops to guard a
- land corridor from Split to Sarajevo, but that idea was rejected
- two weeks ago. France, Britain and Italy have said they are
- ready to contribute forces of around 2,000 soldiers each, and
- NATO is now considering using a total of 10,000 troops, not to
- hold open a corridor but to convoy road shipments to Sarajevo.
- The U.S. says it is willing to contribute air units but no
- ground forces.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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