Word: muslim
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...Bosnian Serbs and the newly formed alliance of Bosnian Muslims and Croats agreed to a one-month cease-fire at a meeting in Geneva. But the truce, which was supposed to take effect Friday, was quickly violated, and like previous cease-fires that have failed, the agreement provided no enforcement measures. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure mandating the unilateral lifting of the arms embargo on the Bosnian Muslim government...
Under pressure from Muslim fundamentalists, authorities in Bangladesh have issued a warrant for the arrest of Taslima Nasrin, a doctor turned feminist writer who was quoted in a Calcutta newspaper as saying that the Koran should be revised thoroughly. Nasrin, previously threatened by fundamentalists for her controversial book Lajja (Shame), in which she described atrocities on minority Hindus by the majority Muslims, denies making the statement and has gone into hiding...
...House blasted President Clinton's position on Bosnia by voting to lift the U.S. arms embargo against the Muslim-led government. The directive won by a wide margin and follows a similar measure passed by the Senate. The measure has no legal force in itself, but poses political problems for the President. The present White House stance is to reluctantly support the European-backed embargo and to carve up Bosnia into Serb, Muslim and Croat domains. This position is a reversal of Clinton's longstanding wish to provide arms to the underdog Bosnians. Until recently, the Administration "had thrown...
BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Within half an hour on May 12, the Senate voted twice to lift the arms embargo widely believed to be handicapping the Bosnian Muslim side in the Balkan conflict. The outcomes were numerically identical -- 50 to 49 -- but the vote lineup was quite different...
...stones by Palestinian demonstrators. Yet stones could prove to be the least of Israel's problems. Under the self-rule agreement, about 5,000 Jewish settlers remain in the Gaza Strip. They are protected by Israeli soldiers and -- at least in theory -- by P.L.O. forces against Palestinian militants, especially Muslim extremists who remain opposed to peace with Israel. After the turnover, Jewish settlers were fired at and wounded on four occasions in the Gaza Strip; in a drive-by attack, militants killed two Israeli soldiers manning a roadblock just inside the zone...