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Bosnian Serbs fired on Muslims with an antiaircraft gun seized from a U.N. facility. The Serbs were responding to an earlier machine-gun attack by the Bosnian government. Both the Muslims and the Serbs have been giving signs of preparing for a land grab, gathering soldiers north of Sarajevo. Still, says TIME Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff, "no one thinks that offenses of strategic importance are in the offing right now even though there may be a kilometer won here and a kilometer lost there...
...most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft gun out the main gate...
There are all sorts of groovy things that go on. The rising senior men chase all the junior high boys with wooden paddles to give them their licks before their "summer of maturity" begins. The girls capture the "freshman bitches " coming out of school and would grab them to become a part of the "in" crowd...
...Leach warned that "the chance was very real that Fiske was going to say no laws were broken ((a forecast that has proved precisely accurate)) and that we would hold a hearing that would be a big nothing." New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, however, argued that Republicans should grab any opportunity to embarrass the Administration...
...think it will defeat the bill." The legislation would ban some assault weapons, punish three-time felons with life sentences and add many crimes to the growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates to appeal their sentences if, using racial statistics, they could indicate bias. That battle was fought, and lost, by the Congressional Black Caucus. The crime bill's biggest winner would be President Clinton, who spent...