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...arrive in Yugoslavia. They are the vanguard of 14,000 soldiers from 30 countries, the first U.N. peacekeeping force ever deployed in Europe. Their mandate is to disarm the warring militias, monitor the withdrawal of the Serbian-dominated federal army from Croatia and protect the Serb minority in the breakaway republic...
...together the anti- Saddam alliance. But when Kuwait was liberated, the Administration's feeble political planning for the war's aftermath was laid bare. Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether it's Iraq, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, they instinctively reach for an older, more traditional kind of world...
Harvard finally broke through 2:01 into the final period when the unlikely trio of freshman forward Ben Coughlin, freshman defenseman Bryan Lonsinger and senior defenseman Rich Defreitas teamed up for a breakaway goal...
Harvard senior Jim Coady, playing in his second straight contest, pushed the lead back to two five minutes later, but B.C. forward Marc Beran's breakaway tally negated Coady's efforts...
Then a representative of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America suggested not only that the icon had never wept, but also that the purported theft had been an inside job. St. Irene's bishop, Vikentios of Avlon, who belongs to a breakaway branch of the church, retorted that he would file a $50 million defamation suit against the archdiocese. The police say they have no evidence of fraud. If St. Irene was not crying before...