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Article: Watching rights. (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) (Column)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 25, 1993
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Sarajevo
Returning to this city after an absence of nearly half a year is simultaneously exhilarating and dispiriting. The exhilaration derives from the fortitude of Sarajevo's besieged inhabitants, their sense of humor, their continuing personal fastidiousness, and from the imaginative and prodigious measures that they and a few outsiders are taking to restore essential services. More than anything, it is a consequence of the people's determination to sustain their city's cosmopolitan nature and cultural life. One observes all this amid extraordinary physical destruction, privations and the maimings and deaths of many thousands from the continued shelling and ...
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Transcript: Sarajevo Slowly Returns to Normal but Trouble Looms
NPR All Things Considered;
June 11, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... it was silent here.' Sarajevo is a city again. Pedestrians have ... peacetime have brought to Sarajevo are astonishing. A city that was brought to its ... United Nations-controlled Sarajevo airport and across into the city, enabling commercial ...
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