NPR foreign correspondent TOM GJELTEN (jell-ton) has a new book, "Sarajevo Daily: a city and its newspaper under siege." During the height of the Serbian siege on Sarajevo the city was in ruins but one symbol of hope remained constant for its people, Oslobodjenje (Oh-slo-bo-JANE-ya), the city's multi-ethnic daily newspaper. When the siege began the paper's editor vowed, "As long as Sarajevo exists this paper will publish everyday." Gjelten uses the paper as a backdrop for his book in order to look at the larger issue of the war torn country and its people. GJELTEN was the Eastern and Central European correspondent for NPR from September1990 to December 1993. (GJELTEN INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO SEGMENT
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