Word: fated
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...toughest issue confronting Tudjman and Milosovic--and the peace plan--is the fate of Eastern Slavonia, the fertile and oil-rich region of Croatia populated by rebel Serbs whom Milosevic controls. If Tudjman, flushed with success, tries to retake that, he will almost surely provoke Serbia's powerful army into a fight. Both Serbia and Croatia have moved forces near eastern Slavonia but have been cautious. According to a State Department analyst, the U.S. hope is that Milosevic will relinquish his control in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and a promise on the part of Croatia that it will...
...BOSNIA'S FATE...
TIME's Dean Fischersays the fate of President Clinton's veto today of a Congressional bill that would have lifted theBosnian arms embargois tied closely to events in the Balkans. Although Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) today said he believed Democrats had enough votes to sustain a Clinton veto when the Senate resumes Sept. 5, Fischer believes all that could change if the war expands in the next few weeks. "If things collapse over there, if the war widens, you may see even more Democrats vote for lifting the embargo." Besides Congress, Fischer notes, the White House...
...have, in the Susan Smith case, the female dilemma at its starkest: Not the pallid "family-vs.-career" predicament, but a zero-sum choice between romantic love and mother love, with guaranteed misery no matter which you chose. Novels like Anna Karenina taught us the "bad" woman's fate, which is ideally suicide. The Bridges of Madison County gives us the "good" woman's answer, which is to renounce romantic love for the sake of husband and kids. But the more disquieting message of that story is that four days and three nights with a sexy stranger can outweigh anything...
Barnes reports that no one yet knows the fate of the 10,000 Muslim men who have been missing since the fall of the safe areas of Srebrenica and Zepa: "Some of them certainly have been killed. But a lot are probably still hiding in the woods and are reluctant to come out." The reason? "Muslims have been killed by Serbs dressed as U.N. peacekeepers, so they are afraid to come out and are hiding even from legitimate U.N. and Red Cross agents...