Word: crisises
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Panelists last night agreed that there would be no easy solution to the current crisis, but said that NATO should send ground troops into Kosovo to prevent what some panelists called the "genocide" taking place there.
According to the panelists, since NATO first started bombing Yugoslav government installations on Mar. 24, it has become clear that NATO's leaders had made gross miscalculations in their initial approach to the crisis.
While other panelists said an initial buildup of ground forces might have led to a less inflamed crisis, perhaps even making Milosevic capitulate on his own under the threat of so much force, Nash had a mild demurral.
Jennifer Leaning, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board member of the group Physicians for Human Rights, denied that NATO was at fault for escalating the human rights crisis in Kosovo. She argued instead that Milosevic was determined to eliminate the Albanian population of Kosovo from...
Lubbers added that he thought the most positive thing to come out of this crisis was what he perceived as a shift in U.S. foreign policy to be more sensitive to humanitarian concerns.