Word: civilians
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Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council lifted some of the sanctions leveled against Serbia after Belgrade closed its border with Bosnia. A ban on civilian air traffic will be lifted for 100 days, and the Serbs can resume international sports and cultural contacts. The council also condemned Bosnian Serbs for renewal of their ethnic-cleansing campaign in northern Bosnia, where about 3,000 Muslims have been driven from their homes...
...Deposed democratic leader Jean-Bertrand] Aristide and the people of his government have to be protected and that's the first priority. We must restore democratic civilian government," said Carolyn P. Blum, a professor at U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, who co-authored the letter with Anker...
...Haiti, there were reports Friday that some of the country's 7,000 soldiers were already shedding their uniforms and melting into the civilian populace. But that could have been in preparation to fight rather than to give up; some Haitian Americans insisted that if it came to war, Cedras and others would hide in the mountains to conduct a guerrilla campaign against U.S. troops, concentrating sniper fire on white soldiers. Some Haitians even maintained that the voodoo gods were on their side: they had sent Frank Corder's plane to crash into the White House lawn last Monday...
...Chief. If George Bush was famous for getting out the Filofax and phoning world leaders in pursuit of diplomatic goals, it was Bill Clinton who picked up the phone last summer and talked King Fahd of Saudi Arabia into buying $6 billion worth of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas civilian aircraft, and then got the Export-Import Bank to sweeten the deal so that European rival Airbus could not steal it away. Last May the President helped AT&T close a $4 billion deal for Saudi telecommunications modernization. He intervened again last June to persuade the Brazilian government to award...
Western diplomats reported a breakthrough agreement with Serbia over the stationing of international civilian monitors along its border with Bosnia, raising the possibility that the U.N. may ease some of its less important sanctions against Serbia. The monitors' mission would be to help ensure that Serbia is keeping its word on the military embargo it has imposed against its Bosnian Serb allies as a result of their refusal to sign on to the latest peace plan...