Word: nato
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...fire was due to take effect (the truce was held up until gas and electricity connections could be restored to the besieged capital of Sarajevo). Shortly before the scheduled start of the cease-fire, the Serbs bombarded a U.N.-declared "safe area," killing a Norwegian peacekeeper and prompting a NATO air strike against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands of men who now face...
...preventing violations may be more difficult than the Administration is letting on. According to an internal Pentagon document obtained by TIME, the U.N. peacekeepers are "not equipped to enforce a cease-fire." Nor does the Pentagon believe NATO air power will be effective for this purpose. NATO planes could stop a large scale assault on Sarajevo but would be stretched too thin to police minor infractions everywhere. So according to the Pentagon document, the only way for the armistice to last is through "self policing" by the warring parties...
...Bosnia, whenever diplomacy seems to be succeeding there, it always raises the question of how any eventual peace agreement will be enforced. The Administration has promised to send U.S. troops as part of a NATO force that would implement the peace, but Congress is reluctant to support such a mission. Now the Administration is wrestling with another problem: what to do about Russian participation in the enforcement of a peace plan. "What is essential to us is that the international force be NATO led, with NATO rules of engagement, unity in command," insisted a senior Administration official. "Having said...
...Pentagon say the U.S. European Command is considering four options: the Russians would provide support troops or would handle the strategic lift functions; they would be given a specific area to police; their forces would be placed under the command of France, which is not part of NATO's military organization; or they would be put under the direction of whatever U.N. forces remain in Bosnia. None of these alternatives may be palatable to the Russians. This is a problem that will come only with peace, however, and in that sense, it will be a welcome one to have...
...HOPE THE LATEST NATO CAMPAIGN in Bosnia is a genuine effort toward peace by the West [THE BALKANS, Sept. 25]. If it is only part of President Clinton's agenda for domestic policy, then he is walking on a razor's edge. TOMMI SLUNGA Rovaniemi, Finland Via E-mail...