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They will be part of a roughly 60,000-strong NATO contingent, known by the acronym I-FOR (Implementation Force), which will enforce peace for up to one year. As a concession to Moscow's touchiness about being locked out of a region where it has historic ties, Russian troops may participate as well, although their role has yet to be determined. "We are proposing a powerful force," said Perry. "If attacked by anyone, it will bring a large hammer down on them. It will be the biggest, the toughest and the meanest dog in town." In keeping with...
...choice is to follow through. When asked to offer justification for American participation in I-FOR, officials argued that a renewed Balkan war could swiftly spread to Albania and Macedonia, thereby threatening to involve Greece and Turkey. Christopher also invoked the responsibility that comes with being "the centerpiece" of NATO. "It's just not conceivable for them to undertake this job without the U.S.," he declared. These points were well taken (and have been made for years by advocates of a stronger U.S. role in Bosnia). Even those who oppose the policy concede that it would be disastrous to back...
...members put their own interests first," Botha suspects that devolution of peacekeeping authority to the regional level could bring the same strengths as any corporate shake-up nowadays. Najman goes further. He thinks the U.N. will increasingly turn to "contracting" out its duties as dire needs arise, the way NATO shouldered responsibilities in Bosnia...
...NATO CHIEF FORCED...
...best to stage a joint peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. Friday afternoon, Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense William Perry, agreed on a force of "several thousand." But the two sides failed to resolve the central issue: whether the Russian troops will serve under NATO command. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow: "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...