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...Chirac, who has been severely criticized for months for conducting a series of nuclear tests, said that France has ended the tests, which had been scheduled to continue through March. "The reality is that the French got all the information they needed from the detonations," reports TIME's Bruce Crumley from Paris. "The political damage from the tests was minimal, primarily because the U.S. and Britain didn't condemn the tests very strongly when they were originally announced. The big question is how other countries who are developing nuclear weapons will react to the fact that France broke the nuclear...
...Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serbs now under indictment for war crimes, told the two men that they would be tortured and killed. The newspaper reports that the French government told the pilots to give the public a calm rendition of their captivity. "But," says TIME?s Bruce Crumley, "the paper contends that when they were debriefed by military intelligence, the pilots told them what really happened." The pilots, Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lt. Jose Souvignet, were beaten and kicked by Serb soldiers from the moment they were first taken captive on August 30. In prison the beatings continued...
...convoys and protesters took to the streets, the strain of holding the peace is already showing in the Balkans. "The Bosnian Serbs have lost the peace," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "They will yell and they will scream, and then they will move on." In Paris, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports that France has stepped up its threat against the Serb captors of two French pilots shot down over Bosnia in August, hinting strongly that they might hold up the signing of the peace accords scheduled for next Thursday in Paris...
...Charles Millon gave the mission a boost when he attended the meeting, ending a 29-year French boycott of NATO's military wing. The contributor of 10,000 of the 60,000 peacekeepers, France has a major stake in the largest troop deployment in NATO history. TIME's Bruce Crumley notes that the French now have 7,500 troops in Sarajevo and represent the most experienced contingent of European military units in a divided Serb-Muslim city that could be a flashpoint during the peacekeeping mission...
...Crumley says the French now have 7,500 troops in Sarajevo and represent the most experienced contingent of European military units there. "The French view, basically, is that the United States came in and stole the thunder with Dayton and will now do anything to keep from being where the heat is. And Sarajevo is where the heat is. No one else wants...