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...some allies this sounds like an invitation for their soldiers to do the dying. According to a senior French official, George Bush last week telephoned President Francois Mitterrand to try out an idea for joint air strikes against Serbian positions around Sarajevo and along the road to Split, the Adriatic port from which relief supplies might be sent overland. Mitterrand, says the official, refused because that might expose the 250 French soldiers flown into Sarajevo airport last week to Serbian reprisals. White House officials snort that Bush proposed no such thing. But the story illustrates the unwillingness of Europeans...
...Russia now part of the West, or still something clearly, if inexplicably, different? Earlier this month, the answer to that question might have seemed self-evident. After all, there was Boris Yeltsin, the first freely elected leader of Russia, addressing a joint session of Congress and seeming to wed his country rhetorically to the great Western traditions of democratic freedom. Just two months earlier, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was laying to rest the cold war at Fulton, Mo., the place where Winston Churchill declared it back in 1946. That vision must have disturbed many older- generation Soviets nurtured...
...problem with this speculation is that Rudman himself is not available. "I would not serve as a Vice President for anyone ever," he declares. Another crossover name is Colin Powell. But again the same pitfall: there are no signs that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wants to be the first black candidate on anyone's national ticket...
Bell will appear before a committee of the Corporation and both governing boards' Joint Committee on Appointments later this month to present this reasons for requesting a third year of leave, University Provost Jerry R. Green said yesterday...
Perhaps even more promising for the improvement of communication between the two groups is the establishment of a "joint labor and management problem solving group" during the recent negotiations, Matzke said...