Word: nato
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...separate the combatants and get the new country up and running, NATO plans to send in an Implementation Force, called I-FOR, of some 60,000 troops, 20,000 of them American. They will separate the federation's forces from the rebel Serb army, supervise their return to barracks and patrol demilitarized zones on both sides of the cease-fire lines. The I-FOR commanders will be the judges of what action they must take in any situation, and while the military annex to the agreement does not say so, the force will function much like an army of occupation...
...with a televised speech. The arguments he and Vice President Al Gore will use to sway Congress and the public center on the need to halt a bloody and destabilizing war in Europe, to maintain U.S. leadership in the world and to play its role in the forefront of nato, lest the alliance fall apart. To help push the proposal, Administration officials will emphasize their promise that U.S. troops will remain in Bosnia for only about a year. As the campaign to send American troops to Bosnia kicks off this week, Gore, Christopher, Holbrooke and Defense Secretary William Perry...
...Administration is hoping for a vote on the Bosnian deployment in the House and Senate next week. No matter what Congress decides, the military schedules begin to click forward. NATO's governing body, the North Atlantic Council, was expected to approve the operational plan for I-FOR this week and then issue the order to deploy what is called the enabling force, an advance communications-and-logistics team of about 1,000 soldiers, around 200 of them American. NATO would then start sending in the main I-FOR the day after the peace is signed in Paris. NATO's southern...
...such a delicate structure of competing and balancing political forces that no one can say whether it will struggle along or collapse once more into war. Similarly, the military mission to police that agreement may succeed or sink into the deadly quagmire so many Americans fear. America, its NATO allies and the Balkan leaders are now bound together in the peace effort, and it will test them all severely...
...good news, however, is that nearly all those former communists, including Kwasniewski, appear to have abandoned their Marxist past. All reached power through free and democratic elections, they are pursuing policies of privatization and market economics, and they are clamoring for membership in both NATO and the European Union. "Poland will never go back from the road of reform and democracy," Kwasniewski pledged, adding that he would move ahead with market reforms and continue the Western-oriented foreign policy established by Walesa. "I am prepared to bet that within five years Poland will be a member of NATO with Kwasniewski...