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...WEST CANNOT REALLY EXPECT THE Serbs to just sit back and allow NATO to bomb them all the time. They have responded, in accordance with appropriate military procedure and rules, by bombing back and taking POWS--not hostages, because they are soldiers in combat. Wearing blue helmets while having the right to fire and bomb is absolute hypocrisy. David Hye London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1995 | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

Students said they were excited to be on campus for the summer, but were eager to buy fans to combat the heat...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Summer School Students Arrive | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...Chinatown, you'll have to walkthrough the Combat Zone (T: orange line toChinatown). The Combat Zone is one place youdidn't want to visit unless you revel in dirtymovies, drug dealing and triple X-ratedpeep-shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Is Old, So You Should Play Tourist | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

Mickey Mantle is back at Baylor University Medical Center, being treated for some signs of liver rejection. Doctors are giving him strong doses of steroids to combat his immune system's rejectionof the new organ.The reaction occurs in about 65 percent of liver transplant recipients, officials say, and drug treatment usually takes care of the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANTLE . . . TRANSPLANT TROUBLES | 6/22/1995 | See Source »

Mounted on a United Nations armored combat vehicle blocking the entrance to Sarajevo's Marshal Tito Barracks, a 12.7-cal. machine gun points in the direction of Bosnian Serb forces just 220 yds. away. The gun is menacing but can almost never be used, and it serves less as a weapon than as a symbol of the paradox faced by the peacekeepers in Bosnia: they are soldiers forbidden to function as soldiers. "You are not allowed to act like a fighting force and return fire," says Guillaume Grouzelle, a French chief corporal whose job it is to guard the barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO PEACE FOR THE PEACEKEEPERS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

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