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...until Tuesday evening, nearly five days after the shoot-down, did NATO planes flying over the region finally confirm that they were getting more extensive transmissions from what was thought to be O'Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes...
During her 23-year marriage, Margaret Randolph could have qualified as a poster woman for spousal abuse. Her husband Gary Randolph, a sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia...
...residents of the town hostage. Chechen General Jokhar Dudayev denies any connection to the rebels, who aredemanding that Russia halt all military operations in Chechnya. One group of gunmen, holed up in the city's hospital with 300 hostages, including pregnant women and small children, has threatened to shoot 10 captives for any Chechen killed by Russian soldiers...
...week of duty, Grouzelle served at a checkpoint along the line where Serbs and Muslims face off nine miles south of Sarajevo. The peacekeepers drew the fury of both. "In front of me were Serbs, behind me Bosnians," he recalls. "And you just knew that if they wanted to shoot, they could." Once, a mortar round landed less than 70 ft. from his vehicle. Under the rules of engagement, he could do nothing...
...similar restrictions hold back the Serbs, who have delighted in turning much of Sarajevo into something like a shooting gallery at an amusement park. "The Serbs always shoot at us," says Colonel Alain Ferrand, commander of the 100 French soldiers who protect the Sarajevo airport, five miles from Grouzelle's barracks. "Every time we go to the runway or other exposed places, we get a few bullets. Usually they hit the ground 1 or 2 m [3 or 6 ft.] in front of us. And they love to shoot at night. God knows why." Ferrand says the morale...