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...abrupt about-face, President Clinton offered to send 15,000 American soldiers to help in the withdrawal of the 24,000 U.N.peacekeepers in Bosnia. It appears to be another sign that the major international players are giving up on the embattled former Yugoslavia. Just yesterday, France called for the United Nations and NATO to draw up an exit plan. However,TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James Graffsays this new stance of the West to pull away from this bloody conflict is simply posturing. Unable to get the Serbs to accept their peace plan, the West is now "putting pressure...
...after the abrupt announcement that North House will become Pforzheimer House, residents say they are still getting over their initial shock...
...Green's abrupt departure left a third hole in Rudenstine's administration. The president had been involved for months in searching for replacements for John R. Shattuck, the departed vice president for government, community and public affairs, and Robert H. Scott, former vice president for finance...
...Soviet ICBM deployment programs have followed an uneven course marked by spurts of activity, long pauses, and abrupt cutbacks of what initially appeared to be large-scale program," an October 1965 intelligence estimate concludes...
...abrupt reversal from its stance just two months back, the Clinton Administration today announced a deal with General Motors that frees the auto maker from recalling five million pickup trucks alleged to be unsafe in some collisions. In return GM agreed to spend about $50 million in safety and research programs. The move is a 180-degree switch by the government: On October 17, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena issued a scathing attack on GM, saying that the trucks -- made between 1973 and 1987 -- present an unreasonable risk of fire in side-impact collisions since their fuel tanks are mounted outside...