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MOSCOW: Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Moscow on Thursday for consultations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Christopher's reception in Moscow may be unseasonably chilly, coming on the heels of his reiteration this week of NATO's intention to expand its membership into the former Soviet bloc. The issue could prove troublesome for Yeltsin in the upcoming election campaign, providing anti-NATO Russian nationalists with political capital. NATO's plans to expand are not new. The process has been underway since 1994, and encountered staunch Russian opposition from the start, even though NATO...
TUZLA AIR BASE, BOSNIA: An American soldier was shot and wounded in the left shoulder early today by an intruder at a base in the U.S.-controlled sector of northern Bosnia. A spokesman for the NATO-led peace force said Spc. Shawn Austin is in stable condition. Austin was patrolling the base with one other soldier when they saw the intruder and opened fire. "He challenged the intruder, who in turn fired a shot, which hit the soldier in the left shoulder," Lt. Col. Chuck Merlo said. He did not know what kind of weapon the intruder was carrying...
...crisis that brought Holbrooke scurrying back was sparked by the Bosnian government's arrest of two Bosnian Serb military officers on Jan. 30 in Sarajevo. Although the two are suspected of committing war crimes, their arrest was the third in a series of detentions that in NATO's view may violate the spirit of the Dayton accords. Last week those actions finally provoked an outcry from the Bosnian Serbs, who threatened to cut off all contact with NATO, thus imperiling the pact...
SARAJEVO: Although it takes considerable chutzpah to keep NATO, Muslim, and Croat generals waiting in the rain, Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy...
SARAJEVO: U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke received a big bit of leverage for his weekend meeting in Rome with Balkan presidents with the discovery of what NATO officials call a terrorist camp near Sarajevo. Less than 48 hours before the Rome conference to boost compliance with the Dayton peace agreement was scheduled to begin, French soldiers raided a former ski chalet 20 miles west of Sarajevo and found nine men, including at least three Iranians, sitting atop an extensive arsenal of grenades, submachine guns, explosives and boobytrapped toys. The Iranians were in direct violation of the Dayton agreement, which said...