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...time Clinton was safely re-elected and considering his choices for his new team, he had learned to trust his instincts on foreign policy, thanks in part to successful interventions in Bosnia and Haiti. "He wanted the chemistry to be such that he would be his own chief policy designer," says a White House insider, "and that he would have people who would carry out his vision...
Albright is lucky to be gardening at a moment of relative tranquillity. While Warren Christopher had to cope at once with second-tier crises like Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia, Albright is free to focus on the prime challenges to American security ahead: attaining a democratic, capitalistic Russia and handling a rich, restless China as it aspires to superpower status...
Speakers at the conference include Graham Day, who recently returned from Bosnia, where he was chief of United Nations Field Offices...
...BRCKO, Bosnia: Sometimes in Bosnia the best strategy is to punt. Such was the case Friday, when a mediation panel led by American Roberts Owen decided to leave the northern Bosnian town of Brcko in Serb control for another year. The dilapidated town, which serves as a flashpoint for tensions between Bosnian Muslims and the country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs...
During the next 4 1/2 years, Stanisic played a central role in the Serb minority uprisings that tore through Croatia and Bosnia. His position enabled him to act as a virtual consigliere to Milosevic, implementing the President's vision of a greater Serbia by funneling arms, ammunition and support to Serbian enclaves throughout the Balkans. Western diplomats suspect that Stanisic had an important role in organizing Serbia's paramilitary infiltrations in the Croatian city of Knin in 1990 and the paramilitary operations in 1991 that preceded Serbian army incursions into the Croatian city of Vukovar. Those Serbian moves resulted...