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...major figures, only U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali bears the full brunt of Holbrooke's contempt, especially for his early opposition to NATO bombing. Nearer home, he has little patience with the commander of NATO's Southern Forces, Admiral Leighton Smith, who opposed the bombing that Holbrooke believed to be indispensable to the start of a serious negotiating process. Later, NATO troops under Smith's command, reflecting his narrow view of IFOR responsibilities, simply looked on as the thugs of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic forcibly evicted the Serbs who wished to remain in Sarajevo and then burned their...
Even the gamers sometimes turn a critical eye on themselves. One frequent player of "Mario Kart" received a bad report from his fellow video gaming roommate, Christopher R. Leighton '01. "His life has turned to hell; his sleep pattern is destroyed," says Leighton of his roommates. "He doesn't hang out with his friends anymore. They think he plays video games too much...
...lawyer who had signed the letter, and asked, Why? What for? What's the problem? Bosworth said she thought the letter was pretty self-explanatory. It wasn't. There are dozens of Melrose Place-centric Websites out there, including sites devoted entirely to Heather Locklear, Daphne Zuniga and Laura Leighton. Why pick on Hart...
...task in Bosnia this week as peacekeepers will provide security for U.N. war crimes investigators. NATO's commander in Bosnia does not expect any major confrontations during the search for mass graves and other atrocities near Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia. 'There may be some demonstrations," Adm. Leighton Smith said. "This obviously is a very emotional issue. But I don't anticipate that there will be problems" for the American troops. The investigators will begin examining graves on Tuesday for planned excavation. Reports that thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Bosnian Serbs near Srebrenica helped trigger NATO's peacekeeping mission...
...General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke in Rome to bring the Bosnian Serbs back to the negotiating table, but he was unable...