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...Korea also ejected foreign cease-fire observers from its territory and closed its offices in the truce village of Panmunjom. After the April incursions, President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam suggested that the two Koreas meet with the U.S. and China to discuss a permanent peace accord. North Korea indicated that it is interested in signing a longterm peace accord but only with the U.S., not with Seoul. Lamia Abu-Haidar
...months after the U.S.-brokered Dayton accord said war criminals would be arrested and tried at the Hague, hundreds of Balkan triggermen who carried out atrocities and scores of high-ranking apparatchiks and politicians who ordered the genocide go about their lives as if nothing has happened. National leaders who presided over the savagery remain in power, including the indicted ringleaders of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Only three of the 57 accused war criminals formally charged--46 Serbs, eight Croats, three Muslims--are in custody in the Hague, though the Bosnian government just arrested...
Although the Dayton accord has brought a bare minimum of peace to the Balkans, even that will not last if implementation of the civilian provisions fails, and none is more crucial than the one promising that the men who held the club and the gun will be arrested and tried. "How can I ever go home," says Hamdija, a Muslim refugee in Sarajevo, "if the man who killed my father goes free...
REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT DORNAN His wildly unpopular effort to oust HIV-positive military troops is ousted from budget accord...
...this reason: most decades have the good grace to die of their own accord, a natural and seemly death. The old decade goes into the dustbin precisely because in looking back, we see its follies and feel a healthy eagerness to get on with something better...