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Article: Bosnian Serbs have significant military advantage in Sarajevo. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 21, 1994
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ When NATO issued its 10-day ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs to remove their artillery from around Sarajevo, few would have thought that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army could defy the deadline and still be big winners.
But with a little help from the Russians, the Bosnian Serbs have done just that. They manipulated a weak Western resolve to get involved in Bosnia and turned it to their advantage.
By almost every reasonable measure, the Serbs are far ahead of where they were when the NATO ultimatum was issued 10 days ago. The Bosnian government _ whom NATO was ostensibly trying to help _ is accordingly far worse off.
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