Word: jointed
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Milosevic's elliptical style of command is confirmed by Borisav Jovic, the last head of the joint federal presidency that ruled unified Yugoslavia from Tito's death until its breakup. He was an intimate who shared in Milosevic's decision making until mid-1992. He tells TIME that the merciless siege of Vukovar, in which Croats claim some 2,000 of their kin perished, illustrates Milosevic's method. The President made a "general decision" to "free" Yugoslav army troops in barracks "blockaded" inside predominantly Croat cities. "No siege order was issued," says Jovic; Serb troops merely went...
General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listened closely. "He was extremely attentive," recalled one lawmaker. Shalikashvili was aware that banning antipersonnel mines had become an important political issue, both in Congress and internationally. A former frontline soldier, he understood the value of mines, but his experience helping the Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf War had shown him how devastating they can be to civilians. As the presidential plane drew nearer to Bosnia, the general well knew that he might soon have to rethink America's land-mine policy...
...investigate the value of mines to the U.S. But a new policy began to jell even before committee members could be chosen. With the White House concerned over the humanitarian issue and the brewing controversy, and many in the Pentagon already convinced by the antimine argument, Shalikashvili and the Joint Chiefs concluded that the U.S. should give up on mines (always excepting protection of South Korea and the Persian Gulf). Only the timing remains an issue. Since the military has accepted Leahy's moratorium for 1999, the White House is pressing that year as the start of a permanent...
...Joint ventures with foreign firms could bolster Cuba's credibility in the global biotech marketplace. While Cuban institutions conduct clinical trials of vaccines and drugs and informally follow U.S. guidelines for field-testing recombinant organisms, the perception persists that Cuba sometimes releases its products prematurely. Recently, for example, scientists at the Citrus Institute developed a monoclonal antibody to detect tristeza, a lethal virus that threatens to devastate the Caribbean citrus industry. However, although the antibody works well in Cuba, it is being offered to countries whose crops may be infected with different strains...
Right now, however, the U.S. trade embargo prohibits American drug and chemical companies, Cuba's natural partners, from establishing joint ventures. The embargo likewise dissuades big European companies from striking deals with Cuba because products made in Havana cannot be sold in the U.S., which represents 50% of the global market for pharmaceuticals...