Word: hurd
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...they would cease further killing. That prospective inducement looked very much like a prize that the U.S., particularly since Clinton became President, has sought expressly to deny the "ethnic cleansers": formation of a Greater Serbia between the rump Yugoslav state and the Serbs in breakaway Bosnia and Croatia. Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe were to visit Belgrade this week to consult on the initiative with Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's nationalistic President...
...Western governments are willing to risk their own soldiers to help Rwanda. Public outrage in Britain may be growing, but Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd answered an opposition member's challenge to act in Rwanda with the lament that there was no clear mission for British troops. Memories of the 18 soldiers lost in Somalia make the U.S. especially reluctant to intervene in a largely ethnic bloodbath in a strategically insignificant nation. Although both the U.S. and Britain voted two weeks ago in the Security Council to send a 5,500-strong U.N. force to Rwanda, Italy is the only...
...recently as January, Secretary of State Warren Christopher fought with French diplomats pressing for a more bellicose stand in Bosnia. According to an eyewitness, Christopher, chatting with British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd before the NATO summit in Brussels about the long-promised American commitment to help police a peace agreement, asked him, "How do we get out of that...
...West is also discovering that once a nation engages to bring war-torn countries relief, it is almost impossible to disengage. Last week Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited the British troops in Bosnia to see if it might be a smart time to get them out. He came home full of admiration for the soldiers fighting to deliver aid despite constant danger. Britain's participation in the humanitarian program -- as frustrating as it is -- is popular enough that one Foreign Office official admitted "withdrawal would be difficult domestically...
...feelgood strategy -- a limited action designed, above everything, to ensure a swift exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims to "level the killing fields," to borrow the words of British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. The Serbs, says the President, have benefited from the West's de facto intervention; the United Nations-sponsored arms embargo has had the "unintended consequence of giving the Serbs an insurmountable military advantage, which they have pressed with ruthless efficiency." Lifting the embargo under the cover of allied air support will...