Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: President Clinton surprised few Thursday when he announced his open-ended commitment of U.S. troops to the NATO effort in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "I honestly believed that in 18 months we could get this done," Clinton said. "I wasn't right, so I don't want to make that error again...
...President Clinton's refusal to set a new deadline -- leaving open even the possibility that the U.S. commitment would outlast his time in office -- was probably wise; progress in the region, diplomats say, is still measured in inches. The key to defeating the enemies of peace in Bosnia may be to outlast them...
...Success in Bosnia President Clinton's announcement that U.S. troops would stay on in Bosnia surprised no one. But the real suprise is that with their presence, the Dayton Accords are slowly healing the divided country Full Story...
...might be rationalized by the biblical injunction of "an eye for an eye," but it would not be the right kind of retaliation at a moment when the world needs a lesson in justified, legal criminal prosecution. Governments have acted ambivalently and timidly in recent "ethnic cleansing" atrocities in Bosnia, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere. Capturing Saddam Hussein and enumerating his evil acts in an international court of law could rekindle lapsed indignation about unconscionable behavior. Saddam's punishment under law, almost certainly a death sentence, would make it clear that moral imperatives supersede oil interests, trade deals or political pacts...
Parish, a former engineer for Lockheed Martin and Motorola, put the first kit together in his basement. Since 1992 his company has outfitted 50 military vehicles and multiplied sales nearly 100 times, from $50,000 a year to $4.4 million. In Bosnia last May the kits enabled U.S. Army vehicles to find and destroy 71 antipersonnel mines in two days. Parish says he has contracts to strap the kits onto an additional several hundred vehicles over the next five years...