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...power is the method most often suggested as a relatively low-cost but effective means. President Clinton recently proposed a twofold solution: lifting the embargo on arms to the Bosnian Muslims and launching strategic air strikes aimed at knocking out Serbian artillery and tanks...
Aside from a handful of diplomatic gestures, such as opening an embassy in Sarajevo, the two new initiatives being urged on Clinton most strongly by official and unofficial advisers are to lift the embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia and to use air power against Serbian guns and supply routes. British diplomats say one of the others is a proposal from London for a military land, sea and air blockade that would completely seal off Serbia from contact with the rest of the world. Still another is the possibility of establishing and protecting "safe havens" for Muslims in the remnants...
Lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia is an attractive option because it has a low risk of drawing the U.S. into a ground war, turning the responsibility for self-preservation over to the Bosnian Muslims. Unless Washington delivers the weapons, an end to the embargo could bring in suppliers, such as Iran, that the U.S. would not welcome in the Balkans, and would probably bring Russian weapons surging into Serbia as well...
...Balkan desk officers in the State Department urged air strikes, unilateral if necessary, to protect besieged cities. President Clinton at his news conference ruled nothing out but again disavowed any unilateral action. The most the Administration is likely to do soon is to press for a lifting of the embargo against arms shipments to Bosnia. Supplying Bosnia with heavy weapons -- or letting others do it -- is the step least likely to drag U.S. forces into the Balkan charnel house. But that might well escalate the violence, and the killing, without necessarily changing the outcome. (See related story on page...
Until last week, the Clinton Administration was moving with all deliberate speed toward normalizing relations with Vietnam and lifting the U.S. trade embargo. Retired General John Vessey, who has served the three successive Administrations in POW-MIA discussions with Hanoi, departed for Vietnam last week. His mission had been to assess whether the POW-MIA dispute had been sufficiently resolved to allow normalization to proceed. Now Vessey must also try to solve the mystery of the Quang report. And no matter what Vessey concludes, there is a good chance that many Americans, never keen about normalization in the first place...