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Under the most optimistic assumptions, a comprehensive agreement could be reached by the middle of this week. But by then a Balkans battle inside the Beltway may erupt. House Republicans expect to force a vote this week on a measure that would bar any spending for the 20,000 American troops that would be the linchpin of the NATO implementation force. (That force would now include Russian soldiers, since Moscow agreed last week to put them essentially under NATO control.) "We're afraid Clinton will cut some kind of deal and our troops in Germany could be down there...
...that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from this election. In a country that had known only dictatorship and political bloodshed for 200 years, something heartening had occurred: a peaceful exercise in democracy. Only after the voting took place did violence erupt, when one candidate shot and killed his opponent...
Even as new battles erupt, the world's focus is turning to diplomacy. The nato allies will try to muddle through until fall, but if they truly mean it when they say the only possible solution is a negotiated one, Milosevic is inevitably the key. He represents the only evident way to pressure the Bosnian Serbs into negotiations. Right now, he is holding out for a lifting of sanctions, and the U.S. is balking. If something has to give, the sanctions regime seems...
Kent State, Jackson State and Ohio State erupt, an several students are killed. Campuses across the nation erupt in protest...
...there is a darker side to the Panthers' promising beginning. Tensions erupt in the wake of Betty Shabazz's visit when the Panthers discover that her Muslim escort had not loaded their guns. The message is clear and chilling: these guns are meant to be used. From then on, each encounter with the police is fraught with horrible tension; the police will not continue to tolerate this threat to their authority, while the Panthers are prepared to defend themselves and the Black community at the first sign of violence...