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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be even more difficult to drop bombs while a peace conference is under way, officials say. But Clinton has told Yeltsin he wants to work directly with him on the diplomacy of a Bosnia settlement. At best, the end of the Sarajevo bombardment, if it sticks, will make civilian life a bit more tolerable while the talk goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words Are Not Enough | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...could be ineffective: finding and destroying well-hidden artillery pieces, especially mortars that can be moved quickly, is no cinch. The Serbs could step up their offensives far from Sarajevo, intensifying the killing in other vulnerable towns like Srebrenica and Tuzla. The Serbs could take prisoner or even kill civilian aid workers who distribute food and other humanitarian assistance. Result: whipsawing pressures on Clinton either to cut and run, wrecking U.S. credibility for good, or to apply more force drip by drip, escalating into a Vietnam-style quagmire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Time We Mean It | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...disappointments. To raise extra cash to finance AIDS research, childhood immunizations, Head Start and increased job training, Clinton plans to reduce funding for everything from public housing to mass transit to assistance for the poor to help heat their homes. All told, the budget calls for 118,000 fewer civilian workers on the federal payroll by Sept. 30, 1995, than when Clinton took office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Whammy | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...district. The so-called Downtown Strategic Plan has been under way for a dozen years at a cost so far of $7.5 billion. Its new buildings, dominated by the 73-story First Interstate Bank Tower, have been constructed with strong earthquakes in mind. Fire officials last week privately informed civilian volunteers that if the Big One hit near downtown, the new buildings ought to remain standing on their flexible spring-and-roller suspension systems even if the streets below were littered with 12-ft. drifts of fallen glass from their windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions for a Shattered City | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...Front, outlawed in 1992, the battle for Algeria has only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Faith's Fearsome Sword | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

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