Word: muslim
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...accurate. The Serbs claim U.N. officials have pledged not to launch any more air strikes. The U.N. denies any linkage. U.N. troops have abandoned to Serb forces the heavy weapons depots around Sarajevo, andthe U.N.says it will work to re-establish supply routes for humanitarian aid to embattled Muslim enclaves. "Certainly this marks a retreat for the U.N.," saysTIME's Mark Thompson. "The question is, now that they've got these peacekeepers out of areas where they are potential hostages, what will they...
...Clinton Administration opposes lifting the ban for that reason. "It will put Americans right in the middle of the hottest war today," Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) said in today's debate. But a growing number of Republicans and Democrats believe that the U.S. must side with Bosnia's Muslim government against the Serbs.TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the resolution will likely squeak through the Senate; if so, President Clinton could stop the action only by vetoing the foreign aid bill to which it is attached. Lifting the embargo, McAllister says, could lead to "a huge mess in Bosnia. First...
...communities served are secure. We hope that all members of the PBHA and Harvard communities express their concerns to FAS and that Harvard will take this opportunity to support public service not just in words, but in deeds. Ali S. A. Asani '77 Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Valerie Barton '86 PBHA President 1986 Robert Coles '50 Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Eric D. Dawson '96 PBHA Vice-President 1995 Francis H. Duehay '55 Cambridge City Councillor Andrew J. Ehrilich '96 PBHA Treasurer 1995 Henry Fernandez '89 PBHA Board of Directors 1988 Robert...
...pace of terror has picked up considerably. During the nearly six years of the uprising, or intifadeh, that preceded the agreement, Palestinians killed 161 Israelis; in the 20 months since the agreement was signed, the toll is 123 dead. Most were victims of suicide bombings carried out by Muslim extremists. "You get the feeling we're collectively going over a cliff," says student Sarah Halevi. "I completely don't trust anything the Palestinians say." Seeing the killers celebrated in the streets of Gaza, and how gingerly Yasser Arafat's governing Palestinian Authority has treated them (at least until very recently...
...Muslim-led Bosnian government traded thousands of artillery shells with Bosnian Serbs in a two-day battle. The fighting was the worst in 15 months. Meanwhile, in its latest desperate effort to brake the slide toward all-out war in Bosnia, the U.S. presented Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic with an offer of relief from international sanctions if Serbia recognizes Bosnia's borders. Milosevic offered no response...