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Finally, impelled by scenes of civilian slaughter in Sarajevo, the U.S. and its European allies went to work last week to impose economic sanctions on Serbia. The Serbs, who fill the ranks of both regular and irregular forces, are now seen as the main aggressors in the war in the ruins of Yugoslavia...
...congressional testimony last Thursday, Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) President Will Marshall--the major idea machine for Gov. Bill Clinton--suggested a Police Corps program to exchange college funds for police service, a civilian version of the G.I. bill, expanding the earned income tax credit, raising work-discouraging wage limits for Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children and contracting out to private companies devoted to finding jobs for welfare recipients...
Wofford envisions creating a "Peace Corps to America," a youth service program for the nation's parks and cities modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Wofford's own Peace Corps. He hopes to enlist upwards of one-third of America's youth...
...complement the training sessions, representatives from Washington government agencies came to Cambridge to recruit Radcliffe students for jobs in the civilian sectors of the war effort...
...however. Many Thais agree with Sukhumbhand Paribatra, a political-military expert at Chulalongkorn University, that "what we are witnessing is the military's last hurrah. The last few days' violence was its dying gasp." But he adds that he "can't say when, how or at what cost" a civilian-led democracy will prevail. In fact, the death watch on military rule, if it really is that, may well drag on through weeks, months or even years of tension, turmoil, renewed demonstrations and possibly even more bloodshed...