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...have replaced the Soviet empire, including an independent Ukraine that is building a strong partnership with the U.S. and Europe. Russian troops no longer occupy either Central Europe or, thanks to President Clinton's personal diplomacy, the Baltic states. Instead, they are serving alongside us to bring peace to Bosnia. While we do not always agree with Russian policies, today not every difference is a crisis. We can manage the issues between us constructively without the threat of nuclear confrontation...
...Implementation of the Dayton accords, which established--on paper--a unified country with a weak central government, linking two entities in Bosnia, the Serbs and the Muslim-Croat Federation...
...consider the chances of renewed war to be low. However, as between the second and third possibilities--a unified Bosnia or partition--the outcome hangs in the balance, and will depend heavily on the actions of the outside powers...
Though a divided country might seem better in the short term than a resumption of war, it would hardly constitute justice. De facto partition would leave 49% of Bosnia under the control of the Bosnian Serbs. Partition could also lead to the eventual involuntary dismemberment of Bosnia, with each of its larger neighbors, Croatia and Serbia, annexing a portion of the country, leaving a weak, landlocked Muslim mini-state around Sarajevo. Such a result would threaten the fragile stability in southeastern Europe. At a minimum, Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Macedonian Republic of Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey would all be affected...
Though the Provenzinos were charged with a misdemeanor, the media attention created an aura of criminal notoriety. Six satellite trucks descended on the courthouse, and portions of the trial were broadcast by CNN and COURT TV, sandwiched between segments of the Bosnia war-crimes tribunal. Within minutes of the verdict, the jury foreman was telling COURT TV that the message here was to "get involved with your kids." But the picture painted in court was not of inattentive parents; it was of frightened ones. Asked who controlled the Provenzino household, Alex's friend Andrew Nowak, 17, testified, "Alex...