Article: Rage rises, hope wanes in Sarajevo

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- When people here ask what it is like outside, they are not curious about the weather.

Yesterday, conditions were what besieged residents have come to call "Sarajevo safe" -- that is, constant spattering of automatic weapons fire from the Serbian-controlled ridges looming over the city mixed with intermittent showers of mortar rounds.

The machine gun, sniper and mortar fire were concentrated on civilian sections.

Midmorning also saw salvos of 105-mm howitzer shells -- the heaviest artillery pounding in days -- slamming into Bosnian Defense Force positions on the lower slopes of the ridges.

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