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Suzanne J. Cooper, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, said Clinton needs to maintain a strong military presence to deter Hussein's actions...
...world at large, trials will send a message: genocide will not be allowed. It would be naive, of course, to assume that punishment for murderers in Rwanda would deter all others. Nuremberg, after all, did little to end atrocities in the post-war era. But justice in Rwanda would be a step toward making international law binding. The other ongoing tribunal, in Bosnia, is hampered by the inability to apprehend suspects and the opposition of UN negotiators, who want to avoid angering the Bosnian Serbs. Rwanda is the best chance...
Crimson polls conducted last spring made clear that an overwhelming majority of students--realizing that the council should not be given more money when it does so little with what it has--opposed the fee increase. But, alas, this did not deter the council from passing the tax hike...
...Aristide demonstrators soon after the arrival of troops. The graphic sights of Haitian civilians being beaten to death under the eyes of well-armed G.I.'s forced the Clinton administration to speed up its disarmament of the Haitian armed forces. American troops were also given a broader mandate to deter excesses by pro-junta forces...
...second day of violence between Haiti's factions marked the third anniversary of the military coup that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. troops' pervasive presence in Port-au-Prince failed to deter forces loyal to the military junta from disrupting a pro-democracy march of 5,000 people, in which skirmishes between the two opposing sides killed three people and injured at least 11. Amid gunfire, Aristide supporters struggled with pro-military "attaches," who were armed with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported...