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There are those who argue that some of the ethnic cleansing that has put hundreds of thousands of Bosnians to flight can be undone -- and can be prevented from happening again. Wohlstetter and others contend that Washington has been too quick to abandon its option of "lift and strike" -- lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims and strike at mainly Serbian heavy weapons with aircraft and limited ground forces. But it may be too late for that, with Sarajevo on the verge of defeat. In any case, the lift option is vehemently opposed by all of Europe except Germany...
...policy, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff narrowly endorsed, was a compromise between those who wanted to maintain the military's long-standing ban on gays and those who wanted the ban lifted completely. The president, who had promised to lift the ban during his campaign, said he agreed to the compromise because Congress and the military would not tolerate any stronger reforms...
...Bill Campbell, and within an hour of landing, both were on a boat in St. Charles County, just north of the city, reporting on the calamity firsthand and uncovering the kind of anecdotes about human nature that catastrophes seem to inspire. Says Hull: "The man who gave us a lift on his boat seemed more upset by the fact that the floods had forced him to move back with his ex-wife than with the massive destruction itself." And in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, prisoners and housewives worked side by side tossing sandbags. Hull was impressed by the resilience of flood...
...Chavis' attention-getting tactics have won applause from many of the N.A.A.C.P.'s rank and file. But his quick start has rattled some of the association's Old Guard, who consider him too radical. Many resent the association's endorsement of President Bill Clinton's plan to lift the ban on gays in the military. Others criticize Chavis' scheme for going global as too grandiose for a group that has more than twice as many inactive members (1.2 million) as dues-paying participants...
...first indication of Clinton centrist shift was his easing of the order to lift the ban on gays in the military. Then there was the shuffling of George Stephanopoulos--the young, liberal visionary of the Clinton team--away from the position of communications director. Stephanopoulos was replaced by David Gergen, a far more moderate Reagan-era spokesperson who makes a profession of becoming a blank slate every...