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Article #550More Sarajevo notes
From: Charles Packer
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:57
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:57
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Still not much has been published in the way of pictures of the alleged destruction of Sarajevo. There are two possible reasons for this: 1. There is no destruction, after all; to some degree or other, it's a hoax. 2. There is destruction, but the media are waiting to release pictures to coincide with some event in the offing. Those familiar with my other postings will know that I've favored (1), but it's worth considering (2) in the light of all the talk about the expected UN resolution to use force to protect their relief effort. The deployment of troops, including Americans, to carry out this resolution could be the event for which they're waiting. In either case, such news management would be easy to bring off because the public, not able to imagine who could benefit from the ploy, would never recognize that it was happening. Speaking of American troops, I read that a general told Congress yesterday that "...it may be one of the prerequisites for that happening successfully [i.e. deployment of troops] is to build a permissive environment [in Bosnia] through political and diplomatic action." I can just hear him at his =next= meeting with Congress, when it's demanded of him that he explain what he was talking about: "Senator, I meant to say that we cannot risk the use of FORCE until PEACE comes to the area!
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines,soc.culture.yugoslavia Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!nsisrv!amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov!packer From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) Subject: More Sarajevo notes Message-ID: <12AUG199221570952@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: Dept. of Independence Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:57:00 GMT Lines: 32