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...appearance. It would affect public opinion, which would affect congressional opinion, which would affect the chances for impeachment and possibly Starr's own calculations. If any President has the communication skills to pull off this high-wire act, Clinton does. But that assumes that he and his wife could muster the will to set aside their loathing of Ken Starr long enough to ask for his mercy...
...Fierce ethnic and regional conflicts make it difficult for civilian politicians to muster national electoral support in a country that has known only nine years of civilian rule. One of the few politicians capable of uniting the nation might be recently released prisoner General Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo has support both in the rebellious south and among his former colleagues in the military -- and he's the only Nigerian military ruler ever to have handed over power to an elected civilian government...
...approached the bride in as sympathetic a manner as I could muster and asked if she would tell me what had happened. Turns out her new husband had been drinking at the reception and started mouthing off to the bride's cousins. The cousins got mad and jumped him, causing enough of a ruckus for all of them to get sent to jail. They did get bailed out that night, so there may have been a honeymoon after...
...exploiting disagreements within the Western camp and their general reluctance to intervene," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He will back off, but only slightly -- enough to leave the international community wondering what to do next as the situation in Kosovo continues to deteriorate." NATO has been struggling to muster the political will to act against a defiant Milosevic; they may find it even harder to act against a sweet-talking Milosevic...
...ally to back down. "The U.S. believes it has nothing to lose by giving Yeltsin's initiative a chance," says Fischer, "but they're not optimistic about his prospects -- past experience has shown that Milosevic doesn't change course unless he feels the heat." If the West manages to muster the political will to use force over and above Russian objections, NATO's task won't be easy: "NATO can do considerable damage to the Yugoslavian army, but to what end?" says Fischer. "We're not trying to eject them from Kosovo, we're trying to stop them attacking civilians...