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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...
...Future of the Race is composed of two essays, one by Gates, the other by West, a joint preface by both scholars and reprints of two essays by W.E.B. DuBois (the appendix also includes a look at "The Talented Tenth" by Gates). In the preface, they speak of the crisis of black leadership and tell us that they, "the remnants of the Talented Tenth," must "assume a renewed leadership role for, and within, the black community." They tell us that what is at stake is "nothing less than the survival of our country, and the African-American people." Gates' essay...
...intelligence chiefs to his office for a grilling on their fat budgets. "It reminded me of when I took my orals for my master's degree," says retired Lieut. General James Clapper, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. With Perry's help, Deutch next set up a Joint Space Management Board to control how billion-dollar spy satellites are built. He then proposed a new National Imagery and Mapping Agency to consolidate the organizations that process satellite photos. He is also pushing the CIA to tailor more of its intelligence to what the military needs, and to share more...
...charges have roiled the until now aptly named Midwestern town of Normal, where the plant has helped almost double the tax rolls and provided the kind of working-class prosperity that is fast fading from the American scene. Opened in 1987 as a joint venture of M.M.M.A. and the Chrysler Corp. (which sold its share to Mitsubishi in 1991), the $650 million assembly plant employs some 4,000 people, including 70 Japanese nationals--all of them managers--and almost 900 women. Assembly-line and maintenance workers make about $18 an hour and, with overtime and shift-preference pay, can earn...