Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: The White House is preparing for battle to keep troops stationed in Bosnia beyond June 1998, the scheduled withdrawal date originally promised by President Clinton for 8,500 U.S. personnel. TIME State Department correspondent Mark Thompson reports the administration is worried Congress could cut funding for the peace mission beyond that date, though he says it's no surprise the President wants to keep the soldiers there past his deadline...
...indigenous, self-sustaining humanitarian demining programs. U.S. government agencies have spent more than $137 million for training, operations, logistical support and in-kind contributions. The Department of Defense plays a large part in the training component of this effort. We have deployed explosive-ordnance-disposal personnel and engineers to Bosnia and 11 countries in Africa, Latin America and Indochina. H. ALLEN HOLMES, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Washington...
...waded deep into politically charged--and physically dangerous--territory, for example, traveling to Bosnia to visit with victims of land mines in her campaign against the devices. "She wanted to know everything," says FRANJO KRESIC, who lost both legs and had his eyesight damaged by land mines. "How I survived, how my wife helped me survive, how we have coped with it. At first I was paralyzed--it was a big thing to have a princess in your home. But after a while, I felt as if we had known each other for a long time. She wanted...
...Plavsic succeeds. She may be as obstreperous as her Pale rivals on the treaty's two most contentious provisions: the return of Muslim refugees to their homes and the extradition of indicted war criminals. But Washington is far behind in achieving the treaty's goal of a unified Bosnia before U.S. peacekeepers are scheduled to leave next summer, and no closer to the cherished goal of bringing Karadzic to the court of justice in the Hague. Backing Plavsic is a gamble, but in the quagmire of Republika Srpska, admits a State Department official, "there don't seem to be alternatives...
...outsiders. Like the Queen Mother before her, she won people's devotion by remaining devoted to them. As a princess, she embraced the baby with AIDS. But in her solo career, she sold off her evening wear at Christie's for charity, visited lepers in Indonesia, explored minefields in Bosnia. And the message she sent was a radical one: you don't need a palace to be a princess. You may even need to leave it to become...