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ual demand-not so much to ease the winter’s chill, as to provide only crucial electrical power to the hosptial and for other emergency services.
The staggering shortage of this life-saving fuel oil was driven home later in a Mostar hospital operating room where we saw a river-waterfilled tin can bubbling over a wood fire functioning as the sole means of sterilizing surgical instruments used and reused in an assembly line-like procession of operations on shelling and sniper victims.
We proceeded to what now passes as City Hall for brief meetings with the War Presidency, a five-person executive body trying to cope with governing and providing services to this city under siege.
We were given one grim statistic after another punctuated by the sound of shelling and sniper fire taking place just outside the boarded up window. Fifty shells in downtown yesterday. Three dead, 38 wounded.
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