Word: nato
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American leadership made possible punishing NATO airstrikes that rocked Serb forces still reeling from Croatia's blitzkrieg, and our resolution brought President Milosevic to end support for his Bosnian clients in an effort to end U.N. sanctions against Serbia. The balance has shifted in Bosnia, and the rebel Serbs recognize that continued conflict would only worsen their position. The Serbs have responded by making their first serious overtures toward peace...
...Washington, prospects of peace have revived debate over Clinton's earlier promise to commit American ground forces as part of a NATO-led operation to enforce an eventual peace settlement. When the President first mouthed these words, they passed without discussion, for peace in Bosnia seemed a contradiction in terms...
...their understanding of American security. The war in Bosnia will never reach America's shores, but American leadership can define the norms of international conduct that will regulate the future relations among states. During the Cold War, the Western powers achieved an unprecedented degree of international cooperation through the NATO alliance. We must now continue this cooperation in establishing the Alliance as a guarantor of European security...
This is the place of the American-led NATO operation. International involvement can provide the security that allows combatants to move forward with the peace process. The world community has been involved in Bosnia since warfare began. It is now time for us to see that they are there...
...TIME's first Newstour, in 1963, in which Khrushchev was interviewed. We visited a budding stock exchange and splashy Western stores. We met opposition parliamentarians as well as Chernomyrdin. Standing beneath the crest of the Czars--a huge gold double-headed eagle--he criticized Washington's plans for expanding NATO, affirmed he "was on the same team as President Yeltsin," despite speculation that they might both run for President next year, and asked the West to be patient in helping Russia modernize. "You can never go to sleep in one system and wake up in another," he said...