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...trip to England, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Germany (for a morale-building visit with American troops heading for Bosnia) and Spain (for a European Union meeting in Madrid). In London, Clinton assured both houses of Parliament that the U.S. would take the lead in carrying out the Bosnian peace plan. In Dublin, the President told the Irish parliament that ending the rivalry with Northern Ireland is part of "the tide of history." And in Germany he gave cheering U.S. soldiers permission to "respond immediately and with decisive force" if they were threatened with attack...
...Armored Division, slated for Bosnia duty, "If you are threatened with attack, you may respond immediately and with decisive force." That line receives the loudest whoops and applause of the day. Meanwhile, in Vlasenica, a town 80 km northeast of Sarajevo, General Ratko Mladic, the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, speaks at a ceremony inaugurating a new brigade. "We cannot allow our people to come under the rule of butchers," he says. "Those who bombed us have now infiltrated like lambs, saying they want to protect peace." Are these the words of two men involved in a peace...
...weeks 20,000 U.S. troops will be in Bosnia. The most dangerous risk of their mission is that the Bosnian Serbs will consider them an enemy and then act accordingly. There is one specific element of the U.S. policy that gravely exacerbates this danger--the likelihood that the U.S. will provide arms and training to the Bosnian Muslims. In his speech on Bosnia last Monday, Clinton said that "the U.S. and others [will make] sure the Bosnian federation has the means to defend itself" once peacekeeping troops are withdrawn. The statement reflected the U.S. belief that a military balance...
...snapping a photograph of a human femur at the second grave, a Bosnian Serb soldier arrested him and charged him with being...
...treated well, except they made me stay up all night once," Rohde said, adding that the captors often reminded him of Serbian reporters captured and killed by Bosnian an troops...