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WASHINGTON: The tragic loss of Princess Diana could not have come at a more inappropriate time for the Pentagon. For the death of one of the world's most prominent opponents of land mines has placed it under an inordinate amount of pressure to agree to an international accord banning the use of the weapons...
...TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson reports that the military is aware of the current emotional climate ? but isn't happy with the Oslo accord, and doesn't even think some of its anti-personnel weaponry should be on the table. "It looks like there?s no room for compromise unless Clinton is willing to steamroller the military, which I don?t believe he?s likely to do,? says Thompson...
This was No. 20--the 20th suicide attack on Israeli targets since the day in September 1993 when the Israelis signed a peace accord with the Palestinians. The 20th time fanatical Palestinians sought to kill and maim as many Israelis as they and their weapons could reach. The 20th time men opposed to peace have tried to drown the process in pools of blood...
...demise could make it harder to keep a tiny but key portion of the U.S. mine arsenal. While most of the Pentagon grudgingly acceded to President Clinton's broader proposed ban on such mines, the elite Army GREEN BERETS and Navy SEALS are voicing private concerns that the accord the White House wants could strip a lifesaving weapon from their webbed belts. It is the aptly named "pursuit denial munition," a grenade-size explosive that when thrown in the path of an enemy, quickly spits out seven "buttons." Each of the buttons, which...
...international aid has gone to the Bosnian Serbs, because the Pale hard-liners have refused to carry out Dayton's provisions. Plavsic, who once opposed the treaty, says she realizes that the only way Bosnian Serbs can "reach full economic progress" and survive is to not fight the accord...