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...that President Clinton doesn?t wantto be a team player; it?s just that Washington has a hard time playing well with others. The President Tuesday urged the United Nations to play a greater role in intervening to avoid humanitarian catastrophes on the order of Kosovo and East Timor. But exactly what role he envisages for the international body is far from clear. The U.S. has been criticized for bypassing the U.N. on interventions such as Kosovo, while Washington counters that the international body at times drags its feet as catastrophes unfold. "While everyone in the U.N. is debating...
...presidential commission into national security released gloomy findings Monday on the growing series of threats from abroad that may harm ? and kill ? Americans at home in the next century. "The U.S. needs a strong and effective United Nations to deal with problems such as terrorism," says Dowell. Even Kosovo couldn?t be resolved without bringing it back to the U.N. Paying its outstanding $1 billion dues backlog to the U.N. ?- which President Clinton promised Tuesday to press for ?- may help the U.S. reclaim its natural leadership role in the organization, but it won?t be enough...
...York City. But it was a sign of the limits of international cooperation that while everyone saw it coming, no one knew what to do. As gruesome images piled up in newspapers and popped up on the nightly news, Americans were perplexed and worried. Why wasn't this like Kosovo? they asked in call-in shows and letters to Congress. The White House responded to the growing public anger with strong condemnations of its own. By Friday, President Bill Clinton was saying, "It is now clear that the Indonesian military is aiding and abetting the militia," and called...
...Number of ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo before the NATO campaign...
...anyone contravening the ban on weapons in the territory will be dealt with harshly. Reining in militant ethnic-Albanian nationalists is only half of NATO?s problem. Yugoslavia and Russia complain that NATO has failed to honor its agreement to allow a small number of Serb forces back into Kosovo to police borders and guard sensitive sites, and alliance commanders fear that Belgrade may have decided to take matters into its own hands: NATO reported a number of incidents last week that point to activity by Serb paramilitary forces inside Kosovo, particularly around the disputed town of Mitrovica. With little...