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...Bosnian Serbs don't agree to a West-sponsored peace plan by October 15, President Clinton says he will ask the U.N. for permission to start shipping arms to their enemies -- the Muslims. Currently the U.N. has imposed an arms embargo against all warring factions in the former Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, the on-again, off-again humanitarian airlift to Sarajevo was suspended today after three U.N. planes were struck by bullets. It wasn't clear who was responsible...
...make Haiti's rulers look like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving a flop. Lieut. General Raoul Cedras is rumored to be making $50,000 a day off the black market, and Haiti's civilian elite have every luxury "but Kellogg's corn flakes . . . By the time the embargo reaches the well-to-do, there probably...
Iraq is trying to cozy up to the outside world. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz -- Hussein's slick spokesman during the Gulf War -- spent the weekend begging Greece and Turkey for help in lifting a U.N. embargo that has economically devastated his country...
...inflict on the naysayers. First, they warned, they could tighten economic sanctions on Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs' backers and suppliers. Second, they might expand and police the security zones around six mostly Muslim areas. Finally, as a last resort, the Bosnian government might be exempted from the international arms embargo that affects all of the former Yugoslavia but hurts the Muslims and Croats most...
...that it would dump its leader if the U.S. would back off from invasion. A tentative offer from senior Haitian military officers would have sacrificed their capo, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, if the U.S. dropped demands for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile, in Port-au-Prince, an army-backed effort to whip...