Word: bosnias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president said in the interview that he thinks it is important for NATO troops to remain in Bosnia beyond 1998, the established date for withdrawal...
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...
...united opposition of his Joint Chiefs of Staff and would not sign a treaty banning antipersonnel land mines, which kill or maim 25,000 civilians each year. Clinton and his wife Hillary had been touched by the Princess of Wales' poignant visits to young victims of such mines in Bosnia and Angola a few weeks ago. After her death, the treaty being written in Oslo took on the luster of a humanitarian memorial to Diana and her cause...
...turn on employees, of course ? take NBC, for example. Was there anyone in the country who didn't mutter the words "poor Marv" Thursday? Then there was that dastardly Bill Clinton, delivering ambiguous messages to the U.N. and Big Labor, while blatantly refusing to bring the boys back from Bosnia. And as long as Kenneth Starr is around, not even the President is free from the curse of the week: backbiting. Poor Marv...
...White House prepares for a battle to keep 8,500 U.S. troops in Bosnia beyond June 1998 ? the promised withdrawal date (TIME Daily...