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...Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton reports that NATO for its part seems ready to take a more active role in policing the Dayton police accord. "It appears that NATO is taking its earlier pledges more seriously, and is quietly giving more cooperation on such things as safe-guarding mass grave sites than it chooses to brag about." Sancton says that the NATO action apparently comes as part of a deal in which Muslims would agree not to arrest anyone that has not been formally charged with war crimes...
...bound by legislation passed in 1979, the Taiwan Relations Act, to view an attack on the island as "a threat to the peace and security" of the region and "of grave concern to the U.S." The Clinton Administration has not spelled out what it would do in case the Chinese civil war turned hot again. Says a China specialist at the State Department: "The folks in Taiwan who might do something rash should not assume we would come to their aid, and the folks in Beijing who might do something militarily should not assume we won't." Such lack...
...former close associate charged that Samper was indeed aware of the cartel connection. Though many Colombians all along have believed that the Samper campaign had a Cali taint, the latest allegation stunned the country. As calls for the President's resignation mounted, his ability to govern was put in grave doubt...
TUZLA: Among the other complex issues confronting Christopher in Bosnia will be what to do about thousands of missing Muslims. Though U.N. investigators began digging today at the site of a mass grave near the northern Bosnian town of Jajce, even Admiral Leighton Smith, commander of NATO operations in Bosnia, estimates that there may be as many as 300 such graves scattered across the war zone. Also, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Srebenican women demonstrated again in Tuzla on Friday. "It was quite violent," says Stiglmayer. "They threw rocks and broke windows of a government building." Dozens...
SARAJEVO: Human rights investigators have received a green light to begin excavating sites of suspected mass graves as early as Friday, according to United Nations officials in Sarajevo. "It's a good sign that the United Nations is serious about looking for evidence," says TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "But this is less significant than if they were to go somewhere controlled by the Serbs, who, by all accounts except their own, have committed most of the atrocities during the war." Manfred Novak, a U.N. investigator, will supervise digging at three sites near the central Bosnian town of Jajce, now controlled...