Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEARS BEFORE AMERICA'S policy toward Bosnia became inextricably linked with the name of Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton Administration seemed to be basing its actions on Bismarck's famous comment that the Balkans are not "worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." In July 1995, however, the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and set about massacring several thousand of its men and boys. This atrocity, only the latest of many, stirred Bill Clinton into belated action. The President recognized that dithering and long-distance hand wringing over Bosnia didn't work (especially with...
...however, the very qualities that aroused such antipathy among Holbrooke's rivals in Washington equipped him ideally for browbeating the men who were running the Bosnian war--Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At times the ruthless Balkan bosses--especially Milosevic--probably saw something of themselves reflected in Holbrooke. He stroked their egos, he laughed at their jokes, he drank their plum brandy--Milosevic praised his skill as a "bulls------ artist." But Holbrooke was also tough. Once, when Izetbegovic was hesitating over a cease-fire agreement, he barked...
...United Nations Security Council, intent on keeping the heat on the Bosnian Serbs, has unanimously passed a resolution demanding "immediate and unrestricted access" to areas where war crimes may have been committed. In other events, the brouhaha between President Clinton and Bob Dole over who, if anyone, should spend Christmas with the U.S. troops in Bosnia continued as Clinton announced Friday that, as much as he wanted to go, he would not. "I would go tomorrow, literally, tomorrow," the President said after emerging from a briefing at the Pentagon. "But I think it's very important that...
...other developments, Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. In Sarajevo, American military officials report that the Bosnian Serb military is beginning to dismantle its anti-aircraft radar installations, one of the main sources of worry to military planners. For details and an explanation of the major points of the accord, visit TIME World Wide's special page devoted to the U.S. mission in Bosnia with extended daily news...
THERE ARE COUNTLESS REASONS WHY America has to get involved in the Bosnian conflict, and one that stands out is the magnitude of the problem America will have to deal with next year if it does not get involved now. CELIK PARKAN Hong Kong...