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...former Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared them to "goats tied to a stake...
Citing frustration with the United Nations' continued inability to halt the massacre in Bosnia, the head of the 10,000-troop U.N. peacekeeping force there resigned his commission. Lieut. General Francis Briquemont of Belgium said, "There is a fantastic gap between all these Security Council resolutions, the will to execute those resolutions and the means available to commanders in the field." Meanwhile, Warren Zimmerman, the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia before it disintegrated, resigned from the State Department in disagreement with U.S. policy toward Bosnia...
Friends expected Navy Lieut. (J.G.) Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis...
...upstages the novel's principals: the lovely Miyuki; her husband Imperial Navy Lieut. Kiyoshi Serikawa; and his longtime buddy Cotton Drake, an Episcopal missionary raised in Japan. Kiyoshi is ordered to Honolulu to gather intelligence, and back in Japan his wife and best friend fall chastely in love. Cotton also catches wind of Tokyo's plans and becomes an amateur...
...idea of an interim presidency, however, is hardly far-fetched. Since seizing power in 1991, Cedras and the two other members of Haiti's reigning troika -- Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the police chief, and army chief of staff Philippe Biamby -- have tried repeatedly to set such a scheme in motion. Now, emboldened by the military-staged thug-fest that turned back the troopship U.S.S. Harlan County from Port-au-Prince on Oct. 11, the triumvirate is ready for its end game...