Word: bosnia
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...Presidents have gone out of their way to avoid using it. Jimmy Carter resisted branding the Khmer Rouge with the term. Ronald Reagan avoided applying it to Saddam Hussein. The first President Bush refused to apply it to the Bosnian Serbs. And Bill Clinton skirted the label for Bosnia and Rwanda. State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly became the face of Clinton's semantic wiggle when she tried to insist that, although hundreds of thousands of Rwandans had been butchered, only "acts" of genocide were occurring...
...threats far away from home, they land on our doorstep. We are in Afghanistan to prevent that country from becoming a safe haven for terrorists again. We used to defend our borders; now we have to project stability. That's what we're doing in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in Bosnia. NATO has neither the means nor the ambition to be the world's gendarmes, but it will act if it sees that action is in the interests of the alliance. NATO has a lot on its plate. Let's not have unrest if an alliance of 26 nations starts...
...Chao Lee's mother, weeping. At the site of the alleged ambush, a girl is seen, dead in the bushes, her intestines spilling out through her dress. Forensic pathologist Dr. Nizam Peerwani, Chief Medical Officer of Tarrant County, Texas, and a veteran of U.N. missions to Rwanda and Bosnia, has seen the tape and thinks the girl was disembowelled. Close by is the body of a girl that Va Char says is Chao, with insects buzzing around a mouth wound. Va Char claims she was stabbed. Also in the circle is a dead boy. A man, said by Va Char...
...behind their world-class sitting-volleyball team. Despite the lack of veterans, Kashfia isn't worried; in terms of tactics and technique, he says this team is the best Iran has fielded. Yet he acknowledges that vets bring a certain character to the team?which is why, he muses, Bosnia is the one to watch, and beat, this year. "They just went through a war themselves," he notes. "They have the energy that comes from surviving...
...Then, in 1992, Fischer resurfaced to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia, where Americans were forbidden from doing business because of its government's support of Serbian aggression in Bosnia...