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<text id=93TT2424>
<title>
Feb. 08, 1993: The Verge of Collapse
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
WORLD, Page 18
The Verge of Collapse
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Serbs signal the depth of their hatred by sabotaging a Croatian
dam
</p>
<p> The Peruca hydroelectric dam, north of the Croatian city of
Split, may not yet be doomed. But it is in serious trouble.
Though the dam is located outside the areas designated for
Croatia's rebellious Serbs by last year's peace plan, the Serbs
had threatened to blow it up rather than hand it over to their
Croatian rivals.
</p>
<p> They weren't kidding. When Croat forces took the dam on
Thursday, after a week-long struggle to regain territories that
U.N. troops had failed to clear of Serb forces, the mines had
already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the
210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes
of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials
were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir
behind it.
</p>
<p> A tottering dam wasn't the only prize. The Croats also got
a destroyed bridge, an unusable airport, and a stinging
condemnation from the U.N. Nevertheless, the action has given
Croats new confidence that they can give the Serbs who pummeled
them in 1991 a taste of their own medicine. Though another
emergency cease-fire was declared Friday, such sentiments betray
the more likely future for Croatia.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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