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...draw up an exit plan. However,TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James Graffsays this new stance of the West to pull away from this bloody conflict is simply posturing. Unable to get the Serbs to accept their peace plan, the West is now "putting pressure on the Bosnian government to accept new terms for peace," says Graff. "We're not going to see a withdrawal any time soon."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...oats, members of the Republican leadership have aggressively and dramatically thrust themselves into world affairs. Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has been to Europe, pushing for a stronger policy on Bosnia. Anointed Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has likewise lashed out at the conduct of Bosnian policy. And Jesse Helms, well, he has been Jesse Helms--mouthing off at any and every available moment...
...three have severely criticized the United Nations, an organization they feel has lost all credibility as the Bosnian debacle goes from bad to worse. And it's hard to argue on that point...
...nations -- agreed to establish its own peacekeeping force and to police shaky truces in countries once a part of the Soviet Union. But this week even an effort to issue a statement condemning Serb aggression was killed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. "The Russians blocked everything," Mahir Hadziahmetovic, the Bosnian delegate, complained bitterly. "There will be nothing in the final document on the most burning crisis in Europe." Why did Yeltsin -- who till now stayed his hand despite repeated condemnation of his Serbian allies by the West -- take this stance? TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons says Yeltsin...
...meantime, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev charged last week that the Bosnian government launched its October offensive "with the clear intention of involving NATO." Moscow still has a proprietary interest in its Orthodox Serb kinfolk. It has never believed in bombing them into an enforced compromise...