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...Grady was hospitalized today with "immersion foot," a condition caused by damp boots during his six days in the Bosnian forest. Doctors have ordered him to stay off his feet for 24 hours...
...called peacekeepers will do ... what? They are already ineffective at shielding and feeding innocent civilians; if they merely hunker down in the six existing misnamed safe havens, it will become impossible for them to fulfill those missions. Worse, they will continue as prime targets of the Serbs, because the Bosnian Muslims use those very same areas to rest, retrain and plan counterattacks. If, to render themselves less vulnerable, they retreat to more remote locations, they will be safer but almost wholly irrelevant-unless they become combatants, which is the last thing their governments want...
...service of this negotiated division, large economic sticks should be brandished. Right now, despite sanctions, the Serbs import whatever they need. Failure by both Belgrade and the Bosnian Serbs to ratify an equitable land split should prompt an end to all international air traffic and the sinking of ships carrying forbidden cargo...
...West's credibility, produce a huge refugee crisis in Europe and encourage others to conclude that aggression carries no price. Avoiding such outcomes-particularly the last-is the very definition of a vital Western interest. If a strategy like the one suggested here doesn't work, at least the Bosnian Muslims will have been given what they want: the chance to fight on a leveled killing field. If a serious strategy isn't tried, then as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke says, history will confirm the verdict so far: "The failure to respond properly in this tragedy...
...Force Capt. Scott O'Gradytraded his Bosnian diet of grass, rainwater and ants for a feast of lamb chops and crab meat salad today alongside President Clinton in the White House. Taking in the spread, O'Grady cracked: "You'll understand, Mr. President, if I don't eat the salad." Flanked by the fighter pilot's parents, grandparents, brother and sister, Clinton and the top Pentagon brass paid tribute to the pilot's courage and to the readiness of the Marines who rescued him last Thursday. "He gave us something more precious than we can ever give him: a reminder...