Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teams, to spotlight every Iraqi evasion of U.N. resolutions, and to boost aid to Kurds and exiled opponents of Saddam. This week the Security Council is expected to take up a resolution permitting military strikes unless Baghdad stops attacking Shi'ites in the south. The strategy, says a U.S. diplomat, is to "keep Saddam...
...opposite effect. They say Saddam's gamble that Europe is too distracted by the Yugoslav quagmire and President Bush too immobilized by his tough re-election fight to risk military action is a grave miscalculation. "If Saddam does not quickly comply with U.N. demands," says a senior British diplomat, "an attack is almost certainly on. We are not going to wait long." (See related story on page...
Already, says a senior British diplomat, "Bosnia-Herzegovina has ceased to exist." Even if the cease-fire were to hold, Serbs control about two-thirds of the country, and Croats have proclaimed a quasi-independent republic in ! most of the rest. Sarajevo, if it should be able to hold out, looks increasingly like a Balkan West Berlin: cut off from any countryside, capital of Nowheresville. Outside city limits, only a few slivers of territory remain under the control of the Muslim Slavs who constitute 41% of Bosnia's population...
...only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...onetime firebrand lawyer, Gonzalez has evolved into a smooth diplomat more at home on the international stage than on the streets of Madrid. Last year, brushing off opinion polls that showed most Spaniards opposed the gulf war, he allowed the country's air bases to be used as launching pads for U.S. bombing raids against Iraq. Eventually, domestic opposition faded, and Spanish prestige in the international arena rose, heightened by Madrid's success in hosting last fall's Arab-Israeli peace talks...