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...important he was to Clinton's re-election. He also dishes on how the Prez calls his staff "the children who got me elected" and is prone to fierce tantrums. Morris paints himself as the cool, mature mind who advised on everything from suitable vacation spots to the Bosnian peace talks. And he breathlessly describes how he and Clinton toiled alone on the '95 State of the Union address, he at the typewriter, the President above him, "like a sequoia...
...Maybe it's more fun for the perpetrators than, say, lobbing artillery shells at some remote and impersonal target. But this doesn't mean rape can be seen as just another lighthearted form of R. and R. because the intent is still to defeat the other side. As the Bosnian Serbs understood so well, the best way to get the enemy steamed was to put their wives to work as latter-day comfort women...
...Smart, campaigning hard; negotiated Bosnian peace accords; has the support of Strobe Talbott and others at State...
...flaws of the United Nations a high profile. Such trends, however, should not dictate the bounds of objective analysis of the organization. The frequently unreported successes of the UN should also be remembered. It has been credited with the peaceful settlement of 172 regional conflicts since 1945. For every Bosnian quagmire or Somalian fiasco dominating headlines, there exist the examples of Cambodia's post-civil war transition to normalcy and South Africa's first universal election, both of which were coordinated by the UN. In fact, the UN has enabled free and fair elections in forty-five countries...
BONN, Germany: A 29-year-old Bosnian man convicted of a sex crime and grand larceny became the first civil war refugee to be deported by a German state. Bavaria sent the man back to Sarajevo on Wednesday. The government would like to persuade the better part of the 320,000 Bosnian refugees in Germany to return home by the middle of next year. Rhea Schoenthal of TIME's Bonn bureau says German officials are aware of the lack of suitable housing, the 70 to 90 percent unemployment, the resentment of Bosnians who stayed in-country, and the cold winter...