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...does not interfere with his troops' main mission--and only after all U.S. forces are in place, which will not be for another month. Right now, the peace enforcers' primary job is to create and maintain a "zone of separation" between the belligerents, a task nearly completed last week. Lieut. General Michael Walker, commander of NATO ground troops in Bosnia, declared, "We would be running around like rabbits if we went rushing after every single mass-grave allegation." NATO, though, also seems to be shying away from the vast atrocity specter for fear that too much digging will blow...
...snow turned politicians into field marshals. New Jersey's Governor Christine Todd Whitman posed in a snowplow. Hoboken, New Jersey's, mayor, Anthony Russo, closed city streets to all but city residents, conjuring the image of a medieval city with the drawbridges up. Pennsylvania's Lieut. Governor Mark Schweiker confirmed the worst nightmare of the print press by declaring that broadcast journalists qualified as "essential workers" and could therefore drive the streets early in the storm, while newspaper employees could not. Schweiker also announced that Pennsylvania's 2,500-vehicle cleanup was "the largest civilian snow-removal fleet...
MPRI is ready. "The Bosnians need training at the company level, putting battalion staff together, that sort of thing," says retired Army Lieut. General Harry Soyster. "It can be done pretty quickly." Formerly the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Soyster, MPRI's operations chief, is the only official who speaks publicly for the company. For the past year, MPRI has had 15 men in Croatia, a group headed by retired two-star General Richard Griffitts. They have been teaching the Croats to run a military force in a democracy, and recently signed a second contract to reorganize Croatia...
...week caused several flights either to be held on the ground at the Ramstein air base in Germany or to circle Tuzla fruitlessly and go back, unable to land. The miserable conditions do have their bright side, however. "There's nothing like sunshine for a good firefight," says Marine Lieut. General Anthony Zinni, "and this kind of weather discourages that...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...