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...Pastors must be servants in the community," said the Rev. L. Nelson Foxx of Cambridge's St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and vice president of the Black Pastors Conference. "They must provide leadership and integrity with in the community. This is the primary goal specifically for Black clergy...
...fought long and hard for the principle that Bosnia should remain a single, multiethnic state. He had held out against U.N. demands that he sign on to a plan partitioning Bosnia into 10 ethnic provinces. Now, under heavy pressure from the U.N., and from U.S. special envoy Reginald Bartholomew, who promised him substantial financial aid for his new mini- state, he could resist no longer. He accepted a plan to cut his country apart along ethnic lines. "We have achieved preliminary agreement," he told his people, "on the transformation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a union of three republics...
...facto intervention; the United Nations-sponsored arms embargo has had the "unintended consequence of giving the Serbs an insurmountable military advantage, which they have pressed with ruthless efficiency." Lifting the embargo under the cover of allied air support will "at least increase the right kind of violence," says Richard Bartholomew, one of the Administration's Bosnian policymakers. Then the Muslims can decide for themselves "how they will die," says Senator Joe Biden...
Despite the questionable impact of the operation, the U.S. intends to continue it. Aspin appeared to announce a pause last week, but Clinton quickly corrected him, saying the missions would go on. The hope, says Reginald Bartholomew, U.S. envoy to the Bosnian negotiations, is that the drops will "contribute toward achieving a diplomatic solution...
...Warren Christopher put the best gloss he could on the importance of "bringing the full weight of American diplomacy to bear." The U.S. was for the first time taking a direct role in the negotiations. Washington will send its own envoy, veteran diplomat and current Ambassador to NATO Reginald Bartholomew, to take part in the talks. His first stop was Moscow, to persuade Russia to join the peacemaking effort. Meanwhile, the U.S. will step up humanitarian-aid shipments to Bosnia and try to tighten economic sanctions on Serbia...