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...island is facing the ultimate hurdle of a revolutionary society -- whether its ideals can survive beyond the first generation. Subsidies from the former Soviet Union have been slashed, and the U.S. embargo continues to strangle trade, pushing Cuba's economy into an ever deepening slump. Castro's young successors know change is inevitable, but they are determined to control that change rather than let the country fall into the hands of the capitalist exiles in Miami, 90 miles away. The yummies want the best of both worlds: the health and educational advances of Castro's revolution and a good meal...
...come at a terrible price. The soldiers' cemetery begun in the village of Rahic a year ago contains 370 graves today. Grief is constant: for every funeral, the whole village turns out. Even so, Muslim soldiers do not call for military intervention from abroad. Just lift the international embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia, they say, and they will handle this war. Meanwhile they have dug themselves deep into their native soil and are beating back Serb attacks with little more than the firepower of rifles and grenades...
...ground troops to enforce the Vance-Owen peace plan, which he and Christopher had previously denounced as a reward to the Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian government that keeps it outgunned 10 to 1 by Serb and Croat forces, and bombing Serbian artillery that is pounding Muslim towns filled with refugees. But he did nothing to sell this plan to the Congress or the public -- he did not even publicly admit adopting it until after...
...were trying to be modest, we were trying to be nice, to be un-French for a change." -- SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIAL EXPLAINING HOW AMERICAN DIPLOMATS MISCONSTRUED FRENCH SIGNALS INDICATING WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT LIFTING THE ARMS EMBARGO IN BOSNIA
...merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims to "level the killing fields," to borrow the words of British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. The Serbs, says the President, have benefited from the West's de facto intervention; the United Nations-sponsored arms embargo has had the "unintended consequence of giving the Serbs an insurmountable military advantage, which they have pressed with ruthless efficiency." Lifting the embargo under the cover of allied air support will "at least increase the right kind of violence," says Richard Bartholomew, one of the Administration's Bosnian policymakers. Then...