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...important Muslim foothold at stake, there was also the risk of abetting, albeit unwittingly, the Serb goal of ethnic cleansing. The Bosnian authorities themselves were not pressing for a mass exodus, save for 500 badly wounded soldiers in need of hospital treatment. Said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Sylvana Foa: "They are very frightened, because they know, as we've seen, that the life expectancy of a Bosnian soldier on Serb territory is very short...
Americans and Europeans can no longer wish the Balkan problem away. "This is no ordinary war," says Sylvana Foa of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "We are hearing stories about families having to watch fathers and sons walk through minefields, and summary executions for the hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...
...frenzied panic that contrasted sharply with their coolly professional capture of him 63 days earlier. Dropped off in suburban Ivry and handed 20 francs, Empain used the money to take a Métro to the Place de l'Opéra and to call his wife Sylvana from a pay telephone...
...sexy Bitter Rice, starring Sylvana Mangano, who became his wife, that made Dino his first fortune. He used the money to build Dino Citta, his film studio in Rome. Thereafter he plunged big on spectacles like War and Peace and The Bible; tides of money ebbed and flowed. Four years ago, he moved his operations to the U.S. The reason: "I begin to sniff trouble in Italia. I no like what I smell in the politics or the economy." He now says that his only mistake was not moving a decade earlier. "No other country makes room for foreigners...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). Barabbas (1962), with Anthony Quinn as the thief whose life was spared on Calvary. Co-starring Sylvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Katy Jurado and Ernest Borgnine...