Word: cot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achieve it. With only 13,000 troops on the ground and no air cover, "our job is becoming impossible," said Belgian General Francis Briquemont just after he asked to leave his post as commander of Bosnia six months early. The overall chief of the U.N. forces, French General Jean Cot, has been relieved of his job after quarreling publicly with Boutros-Ghali over his right to call in air strikes when troops are attacked...
...Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared them to "goats tied to a stake...
...authorize the U.N. commander to call in air strikes by NATO planes. He would do this at his own initiative if he believed they were needed to protect peacekeepers from attack by the warring parties. "All we are trying to do," says a French government official, "is give General Cot the power to call for air strikes against artillery batteries firing on U.N. troops." Before leaving Washington, Christopher told reporters, "No requests have been made to us for the air support...
...Lisica is a hero, a former Yugoslav Army officer who has battled his way across Bosnia. He thinks he may be tried as a war criminal if the Americans come but says he cannot worry about that. From his office, bare except for the desk, eight chairs and a cot, he can hear the NATO planes. They trouble him and often, as they roar overhead, he will stop in mid-conversation and begin a tirade against the forces that are arrayed against his men. But he is defiant about the possibility of foreign intervention. "I draw the maps around here...
...room, meant to be a one-person studio, had a cot behind a four-foot tall wall of partitions where the occupant's son slept...