Word: established
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...skirmishes with rebel Serbs and perhaps take firm shape only when the year is up. Even if elections are carried out as prescribed, the central government may never become a functioning administration that can earn citizens' loyalty. Under the agreement, both entities in the new state are permitted to establish parallel links with neighboring countries. That means the Serbs with Serbia and the Croats with Croatia. The biggest worry for Bosniacs is that those links will turn into de facto secession and that Milosevic and Tudjman may yet divide up Bosnia...
...homesteaders on the prairies. The biosphere in which the Cambrian explosion occurred, in other words, was like the American West, a huge tract of vacant property that suddenly opened up for settlement. After the initial land rush subsided, it became more and more difficult for naive newcomers to establish footholds...
Powell is probably correct when he says no overall strategy can ever cover all the choices open to the nation; the government of the day will have to convince the public each time that America must act. Precedent will certainly influence the debate, however. Intervention in Bosnia would help establish the principle that we should take action in situations that are less apocalyptic than the global struggle against communism or a direct attack on ourselves or our allies. So far Clinton has failed to explain the value of sending troops to Bosnia on those terms. If he never succeeds...
...1980s when the men were imprisoned together. Legend has it that Belhadj promised to cut Sadi's throat if the Islamists ever came to power. "Fundamentalism is like death," Sadi told supporters. "You try it only once." At Sadi's instigation, the government has allowed Algerian peasants to establish village "self-defense committees" to fight armed Islamists...
Charles A. Ash, a senior who helped establish the center, says the new building combines under one roof an array of previously scattered services, including health insurance counselling agencies...