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...issue is no longer just Bosnia, but what to do in future, similar situations. Above all avoid the U.N., say many people, especially the Republicans. They would severely restrict the President's ability to work with it. That is understandable, given the U.N.'s monumental disarray. But the U.S. is not rich enough or powerful enough to undertake major international actions without allies. The U.N. can be useful in marshaling them, as was evident during the Gulf War, which the U.N. authorized. Without it, the U.S. would have more trouble assembling coalitions from scratch in each crisis, or it might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN PEACEKEEPING DOESN'T WORK | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...been kind of floundering as an organization," former Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who was endorsed by the CCA, said in February. "I think there's a certain amount of disarray now and I think that could have major implications for their politics. They've got to get their act together...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Cambridge Civic Association Flounders in Search of Platform | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...January/February issue of Lingua Franca, a magazine that reviews academic life, Susannah Hunnewell notes at the end of a report on the Figaro case, "Whatever Loupin's [sic] errors, he may have been on to one thing: Harvard's French department is in some disarray...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Profs. Fight Attacks on Harvard's French Program | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...graduate students interviewed said Witzelis not to blame for the department's disarray...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Sanskrit Dept. in Disarray, Students, Officials Say | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

Their death outraged the public and galvanized prosecutors. New turncoats supplied evidence specifically linking the Mafia to a dc faction led by the highly respected Andreotti (who was formally indicted in March on charges that he had served as the criminal brotherhood's political protector). With its leadership in disarray, the Christian Democratic Party -- for half a century the church -- blessed bulwark against the threat of Italian communism-ignominiously collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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