by Douglas Stanglin; Gordon Witkin; David Fischer; Gary Cohen; Kathryn Bushkin; Steven V. Roberts; Charles Fenyvesi; Tim Zimmermann
Market forces, not military forces, may well be behind some of the recurring attacks on the Sarajevo airport. The U.N. peacekeeping command in Sarajevo is convinced that at least one black marketeer near the airport has a mortar that he deploys on occasion, when the U.N. humanitarian airlift is succeeding so well it drives down the price of black-market food and medicine. By lobbing a few shells at the runway, the black marketeer can temporarily shut down the airport, forcing prices back up.
