Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace enforcers serving under NATO command, the French, British, American and other members of the 60,000-strong international implementation force--32 countries in all are definitely participating in Operation Joint Endeavor--will carry heavy weapons and be authorized to shoot not only if they come under fire but even if they are just threatened. American G.I.s specifically can fire if anyone points a gun at them in a menacing fashion. And the order to fire need not come down any chain of command. It can be given by a sergeant on the spot...
...nature of the NATO mission--policing long, snakelike "zones of separation" between the warring factions--means that troops will never be far out of mortar and artillery range. Any Balkan soldier who chooses to will easily be able to fire a couple of shells at them. After doing so, however, he will have to move quickly to avoid being hit by NATO's sophisticated counter-artillery fire. A senior Army planner says, "We would expect to return artillery fire at the location where it's coming from almost before the round hits the ground...
...customarily been whenever the Commander in Chief has decided to commit U.S. troops abroad, a deeply ambivalent Congress voted on a jumble of Bosnia resolutions. The net effect of the House and Senate actions was to express full support for the U.S. troops who will be sent on the nato peacekeeping mission but to register deep reservations about the deployment...
...Clinton also signed it, along with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Spain, at a ceremony in the Elysee Palace. Under the agreement, Bosnia will be partitioned into two roughly equal parts--one for Bosnian Serbs, another for a Muslim-Croat federation. In Bosnia, advance teams from nato's 60,000-strong peacekeeping force were battling only record snows in the initial stages of their deployment...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...