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Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT and Defense Secretary WILLIAM COHEN are still feuding over whether American soldiers should remain in Bosnia beyond June 1998, the once hard-and-fast deadline for their departure. Albright wants their stay extended, fearing the Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Muslims will go back to slaughtering one another if U.S. forces leave next summer. Cohen and Congress want the troops out, with no ifs, ands or buts. Bill Clinton has papered over the dispute for the moment, ordering the Pentagon to draw up two sets of contingency plans: one for a June withdrawal, the other...
Getting medical supplies into Bosnia is one thing, but getting a 40-ft. motorized lemon-disco-ball spaceship into Sarajevo is another. But U2 managed to pull it off--with the U.N.'s help--when the band, fulfilling a promise made by lead singer and honorary Bosnian citizen BONO, staged a full PopMart concert in the city, which doesn't even have running water 24 hours a day. "We offered them a scratch gig, a benefit concert, and they didn't want that. They wanted PopMart," says Bono. "They've a mad sense of humor." The concert didn...
...them, veteran Bernard Goldberg and the young, powder blue-shoe wearing Alison Stewart) come mostly from other CBS newsmagazines, such as 48 Hours and the network's mercifully short-lived Coast to Coast. Taped segments will cover the usual mix of hard and soft news, with stories ranging from Bosnian war criminals to incompetent telephone operators. Hidden-camera reports, producers say, will occasionally be used in the broadcast...
NATO takes over Bosnian Serb radio transmitters in an effort to halt attacks on the Dayton peace accords (Reuters...
...Everyone knew that date (June 1998) was a fraud," says Thompson, who notes Washington insiders are joking the U.S. Implementation Force that has become a Stabilization Force may be about to be renamed the Permanent Force. "Plainly, what they do now is just change the name of the Bosnian initiative whenever they run out of time." Thompson points out there's not much public opposition to continuing the deployment because none of the soldiers have been killed...