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From notes@igc.apc.org Thu Aug 3 14:36:58 1995 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.1) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b10); Thu, 3 Aug 1995 14:37:00 -0500 Received: (from notes) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.203 ) id IAA02829 for "conf-zamir.chat"; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 08:46:36 -0700 Date: 03 Aug 1995 08:28:44 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: ruz@mcs.com Subject: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/Update from the States To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <1404672912-1796224@mediafilter.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 46 Here in the U.S., the war in Bosnia is on the front page of the paper daily; unfortunately most of the coverage is of the machinations of President Clinton and the Congress rather than on the human toll of the war. It looks like the Congress has voted to unilateraly lift the arms embargo against the Bosnia Muslims, and the President will be unable to veto the bill. I fear this will only widen the war's scope and make it worse (if that's possible) as the European nations will use this as a convenient excuse to pull out. Already the Croats have re-entered the war, attempting to reclaim territory takes two or three years ago. The focus of the world community seems to be on the western areas of Bosnia rather than the capital city; Sarajevo appears in the captions of photos ("a Bosnian woman does her laundry in te Dobrinja River") but no one seems to be in too much of a hurry to lift the siege there. I know that the people of sarajevo will persevere; I only hope that releif from the rest of the world will come sooner rather than later. Keep strong and good luck. Peace.