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...only to help the 19-nation U.N. peacekeeping force withdraw, and then only if the blue helmets came under attack and had to shoot their way out -- and even then only after "consultation" with a very unenthusiastic Congress. But even a remote possibility of American G.I.s shooting at Bosnian Serbs will hardly help ease the irritation between Washington and Moscow...
Meanwhile, as Bosnian peacekeepers await word on their departure, the U.S. today sent 3,000 Marines to waters near Somalia in case President Clinton decides they're needed to help pull U.N. forces from that hotbed. "We are getting ourselves in a state of readiness," Defense Secretary William Perry said today. The 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia have been working in steadily worsening circumstances as clan warfare there has intensified. Last month the Security Council voted to end the mission by March 31, and the peacekeepers are due to be out by February.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...protesters carried signs saying "Never Again is Happening Again" and "Bosnian Muslims in Concentration Camps Starving; Boutros-Ghali at Harvard for Award and Tea." They also passed out flyers as they congregated peacefully on DeWolfe Street in front of Leverett Library...
...after Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stunned the world by making concessions to reduce hostilities mainly towards United Nations troops, reports from the former Yugoslavia suggest that his forces aren't completely living up to their leader's promise. If Karadzic keeps his word, former president Jimmy Carter -- yesterday summoned by Karadzic to mediate the conflict -- is certain to be on his way to Bosnia as early as this weekend. But today aid workers were detained by the Serbs, a British helicopter on a U.N. transport mission was fired on and Bihac was again attacked. As a result, the fate...
...conflict? Based on the agreements Carter worked out with North Korea and Haiti, "Karadzic knows he can get a good deal. Both the earlier deals were much softer than what the United Nations had planned," TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelo says. But the entry of Carter into the Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities...