Word: bosnias
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Speakers at the conference include Graham Day, who recently returned from Bosnia, where he was chief of United Nations Field Offices...
...BRCKO, Bosnia: Sometimes in Bosnia the best strategy is to punt. Such was the case Friday, when a mediation panel led by American Roberts Owen decided to leave the northern Bosnian town of Brcko in Serb control for another year. The dilapidated town, which serves as a flashpoint for tensions between Bosnian Muslims and the country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs...
During the next 4 1/2 years, Stanisic played a central role in the Serb minority uprisings that tore through Croatia and Bosnia. His position enabled him to act as a virtual consigliere to Milosevic, implementing the President's vision of a greater Serbia by funneling arms, ammunition and support to Serbian enclaves throughout the Balkans. Western diplomats suspect that Stanisic had an important role in organizing Serbia's paramilitary infiltrations in the Croatian city of Knin in 1990 and the paramilitary operations in 1991 that preceded Serbian army incursions into the Croatian city of Vukovar. Those Serbian moves resulted...
...some evidence to suggest that Lake instructed his broker to sell the stocks, but the broker did not follow through. Justice is also examining whether any White House personnel, including Lake, gave Congress inaccurate information in 1994 about the Administration's tacit endorsement of Iranian arms sales to Bosnia. McAllister says nothing has yet surfaced that would torpedo Lake's nomination, but adds: "Lake taps into a deeper wellspring of Senatorial dislike. He's a very intelligent academician who does not like to gladhand...
...some evidence to suggest that Lake instructed his broker to sell the stocks, but the broker did not follow through. Justice is also examining whether any White House personnel, including Lake, gave Congress inaccurate information in 1994 about the Administration's tacit endorsement of Iranian arms sales to Bosnia. McAllister says nothing has yet surfaced that would torpedo Lake's nomination, but adds: "Lake taps into a deeper wellspring of Senatorial dislike. He's a very intelligent academician who does not like to gladhand...