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...allied quandary and bankruptcy of policy in Bosnia have one root cause: the refusal to risk allied soldiers for the stated U.N. and NATO missions [THE BALKANS, July 17]. The overriding priority is to keep our troops out of harm's way. If translated to the police department, this priority would mean keeping police officers out of high-crime areas. TED KRAMER Ames, Iowa Via E-mail...
...toxic emissions for oil refineries, check pesticides in food, and control sewage overflows. GOP freshman Dave Macintosh, who chaired former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways, harm the environment and certainly cost us jobs." But opponents said the measures paralyze environmental protection and are driven by corporate interests. A TIME/CNN poll taken earlier this year found that 42 percent of Americans felt that environmental regulation does not go far enough, while 29 percent called it adequate. Only...
...This isn't NBA basketball: no harm, no foul," he told The Globe. "This is unethical conduct. Experimenting on a bunch of kids and then letting the researchers get away because they got lucky" and no one was hurt "is really wrong...
...show who was in charge. Beaming, he watched as his Bosnian Serb soldiers offered candy and other treats to the terrified and bedraggled throngs of Muslim refugees in the Srebrenica enclave. He patted a boy on the cheek and assured the crowd, "No one will do you any harm." That much the outside world was allowed to see last week after the Serbs stormed into the eastern Bosnian zone the U.N. had declared a ''safe area" in 1993. Then the cameras were turned off and the horror began...
...Ratko Mladic -- the field commander who some diplomats say now controls the Serb campaign -- scoffed at the threat of airstrikes. "As for NATO's war planes, we are already accustomed to being bombed by them," he told a local newspaper. "No bombardment by NATO planes can do us any harm. The West should realize certain things: It cannot bomb theSerbswith impunity. Serbs cannot be forced to live in pens. They won't have others draw their maps for them that will divide what for centuries has been Serb land...