Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Several American injuries were reported during violent attacks today on NATO peacekeeping forces in this Serb-controlled town. The attacks were fueled in part by the belief that the Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has "sold her soul to the devil" by co-operating with the men in blue berets. And with the former president and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic waiting in the wings, this is not the best time for Plavsic to be losing her grip on power...
...Plavsic would probably be finished if NATO hadn't made it clear that they were not going to tolerate attacks on her", says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief Massimo Calabresi. "On the other hand, she doesn't want to be seen as doing NATO's bidding. The problem is that she needs NATO's help so badly now that she's not likely to turn it down...
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia: An unusually aggressive NATO raid here has set the stage for a potentially violent showdown between rival Serb factions. A force of 350 heavily-armed British troops backed by American Apache choppers knocked out the local power base of hardline leader and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic ? and met no resistance...
...offensive put 31,000 NATO peacekeepers clearly in direct opposition to Serb wartime leaders still in command of thousands of police officers as well as the Serbian economy. It split the Bosnian Serb sector into two regions: one controlled by Karadzic and the other by his official successor, President Biljana Plavsic...
...fearful about the security of the newly independent Central and East European nations in the critical struggle for their democratic transformation if they are left in the "wilderness" outside NATO. They are ripe for possible intimidation and exploitation. Realistically, it is too early to bet on Russia's success in creating democratic institutions that will guarantee a break with the Soviet past. There is still too much of a mentality that craves a controlling God-like figure, as opposed to individual freedom and free enterprise, the basis of a democracy. nato is much more than a military alliance that reacts...