Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extent to which the U.N. has ceded to the Bosnian Serbs control over the largest peacekeeping mission in the post- cold war world. Their unchallenged aggression in recent weeks has brought the U.N. humanitarian mission in Bihac virtually to a standstill. Through their complex chain of backtracked commitments and broken promises, the Serbs have proved themselves masters at the game of playing one side against another. Late last week, they took the game to a new level by introducing the prospect of having Jimmy Carter engage in another round of freewheeling diplomacy...
...fall of 1991, Gustafson suited up for the crimson for the first time. Despite a broken wrist he suffered that summer, he didn't miss a game...
Hong Kong-based senior correspondent Sandra Burton has never wanted for determination; so when a long-sought visa to visit China and survey its mammoth Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River arrived recently, she set out immediately -- despite a broken ankle. She was doing nicely, navigating curbs and dodging Beijing bicycle traffic on her crutches, when she arrived at the office building of a high official attached to the dam. There, an apologetic aide informed her that due to one of the city's increasingly frequent power shortages, the elevator was out -- and she would have to climb...
...France. After several hours of talks with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the town of Pale, Carter said he now plans to take his olive-branch-for-hire diplomacy to the Muslims in Sarajevo. Carter began the talks over the weekend even though the Serbs had already broken promises made just days before that made up the conditions for his visit. (U.N. officials, for example, reported that Serb forces attacked peacekeepers and civilian targets in Sarajevo, blocked U.N. convoys and expelled more civilians from Serb-held territory -- contradictions of Karadzic pledges.) TIME Central European bureau chief James L. Graff...
...eased transportation for U.N. and other neutral parties -- would be implemented within 24 hours. Carter will be going as a private citizen -- not as a representative of the Clinton Administration, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said today. That's because Bosnian Serbs have regularly made and broken similar promises. At this point, few countries trust their word...