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Russia, which had previously helped to maintain a precarious balance of power in the Balkan region, was suddenly in no position to keep the peace...
Although Major's strongest words of the evening were reserved for the Western response to the Balkan quagmire, he also voiced skepticism about the future of a unified Europe...
...Haxhiu told the Times, "Each day it is becoming more dangerous to think and speak independently." Part of the problem is that the United Nations has been able to deploy only 156 of the 3,000 policemen promised by member states. President Clinton joins leaders of NATO countries and Balkan leaders for a summit on reconstruction to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday. They?ll have a lot more to discuss than simply mending bridges and rebuilding roads...
...Republicans want to get an Ohio law professor ? who thinks that bans on "soft money" are a violation of free speech ? appointed to fill a GOP vacancy on the board of the Federal Election Commission. Bill Clinton doesn?t want that, and so the U.S.? star Balkan negotiator is, once again, stymied in his yearlong attempt to take his seat at the U.N. (His nomination was put on hold during an eight-month federal ethics investigation that cleared him of wrongdoing.) A full Senate vote could now be weeks away...
...might be tempted to write off Kosovo as just another Balkan bloodletting. But if the U.S. is to take seriously its credo of humanitarian intervention, politicians and the public need to understand how and why people in the supposedly civilized world fall prey to animal violence. Kosovo has bred fresh hatreds that will lie unresolved beneath every political and social change the West tries to make in this corner of Europe. And we are faced once again this century with the tasks of assigning individual blame for horrors committed in the name of national policy, and determining how best...