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...Haiti and the head of the Special Operations Command, Shelton is by all accounts a no-nonsense muti-service military man in a multitask world. Which fits the agenda that awaits him: smoothing the way into NATO for Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary; ensuring that the 1998 Bosnia troop pullout deadline is met, and dealing with a Pentagon cantankerous about shrinking budgets and expanding peacekeeping missions. But the best part about Shelton, who served as assistant commander of the Army's 101st Airborne Division in the Persian Gulf War, is that he looks to be scandal-free. President Clinton...
...that he was responsible." TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief Massimo Calabrisi reports that while Tadic may be small time, the evidence shows he is anything but innocent. As a result, today's sentence will most likely stick. "There is little question that the ethnic cleansing of Serb held Bosnia was organized at very high levels, of which Tadic was not a part. However, the only reason it was carried out was because there were people like Tadic who on the local level were willing to ethnically cleanse their towns of people they often knew. So while...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: After coming awfully close to wading into the Atlantic today, the Senate pulled back from ordering a cutoff date for funding U.S. troops in Bosnia to force the soldiers home. Instead, Senators settled for a non-binding resolution in support of the June 30 deadline already promised by the Clinton administration. After Senator Russell Feingold's cutoff proposal met with strong objection from majority leader Trent Lott, and others, the compromise resolution finally ensured that nothing would change for the troops. TIME's Mark Thompson wasn't too surprised that politics had once again stopped at the water...
...Clark Gable or Cary Grant kill in their careers as Hollywood heroes? Precious few, because life--even a villain's life--was held more precious then. Maybe the old movies were naive, but we'll take naivete over the thoughtless, numberless carnage that makes the modern action film a Bosnia for fun and profit...
...majority of Bosnia killings occurred not in battle, but in markets, streets and playgrounds, where men and women like you and me, and boys and girls like those we know, were abused or murdered--not because of anything they had done, but simply for who they were...