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...against about 50,000 Serbs. For the most part, the Croats have been armed from stocks of Soviet weapons that were supposed to be destroyed after the cold war but instead found their way to the black market or were sold to Croatia by Ukraine, despite the U.N.-mandated embargo against trading in arms with the former Yugoslavia. "There is no stopping this now," says one military expert, referring to the offensive. "It is what Tudjman wants and the military has been built to do. And they...
Following the lead of the U.S. Senate the week before, the House overwhelmingly voted 298 to 128 to end American participation in the U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia. The White House immediately launched an intensive effort to switch enough votes to sustain a presidential veto...
...Democrats had enough votes to sustain a Clinton veto when the Senate resumes Sept. 5, Fischer believes all that could change if the war expands in the next few weeks. "If things collapse over there, if the war widens, you may see even more Democrats vote for lifting the embargo." Besides Congress, Fischer notes, the White House faces deadline pressure from British and French officials, who have told the U.S. that they have to make a decision whether to withdrawtheir troops from the U.N. forceby early fall -- making National Security Adviser Anthony Lake's diplomatic mission even more crucial...
...during many of the Cold War years, and the sense that dis-involvement in anything that does not directly pertain to us is best. Hence, we call for air strikes on Bosnia, but refuse to send our own troops in there; hence, we act unilaterally to revoke the arms embargo while U.N. policies languish. We are stuck in a quagmire of wishful thinking and anti-communist nostalgia--a vicarious reliving of the days in which the West stood firm behind us and there was only one major enemy...
BILL CLINTON Another Senate action: veto-proof majority votes to end Bosnian arms embargo...