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Even so, Bosnia is a dangerous assignment. Atop the worry list for everyone, from private in the field to general in the Pentagon, is land mines. Overall, experts think the former Yugoslavia has been sown with anywhere from 2 million to 6 million mines. The American sector is known to contain three big minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed...
Eric M. Mindich '88, the head of risk arbitrage at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Ben Waldman '89, the manager of Macintosh Technology for Microsoft, and Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies '87 were the Harvard alumni who made the list...
...months Bill Clinton waffled on the details. So it was a surprise to hear exactly where the President drew the line last week when he vetoed the Republican balanced-budget bill and unveiled a new plan of his own. Topping the list of things on which Clinton took a stand was Medicaid, the jointly funded, federal-state health program that serves 36 million Americans. The Administration renewed its call for a plan that would save $54 billion from the program over seven years, only one-third of the savings Republicans seek. But Clinton went further, saying if the G.O.P. kept...
...night for one other reason. Earlier Gingrich had got word that the House ethics committee had made a crucial decision. After months of wrangling on a list of complaints brought against him by Democrats, the 10-member panel, which is evenly divided between the two parties, had settled on a good news/bad news outcome. By a unanimous vote, it cleared Gingrich of three charges and slapped his wrist on three others. And of the $4.5 million advance for his recent book that he accepted, then declined, from the publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, a media magnate with magnate-style...
...York City became a symbol of America's deeply flawed child-welfare system. Under deadline pressure, Rivera needed to move quickly, so she turned for help to TIME's in-house research center. Using a CD-ROM directory, the staff was able to supply Rivera with a list of people who live in Izquierdo's apartment building. The results of her interviews appeared in last week's cover story...