Word: nato
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...WILL NATO INTERVENTION CONVINCE THE Balkans that blood cannot be washed away by blood? JAMES NICHOLAS, International Secretary World Council for Global Co-Operation Toronto...
...NATO OFFERS NUCLEAR UMBRELLA...
Provoking strong Russian displeasure, NATO announced that any new members from the former Soviet bloc would be given the same offer of mutual defense--including the use of nuclear weapons in case of attack--promised to all members. Said a Clinton Administration official: "There will be no second-class nato members...
...have changed. For the first time in three years, the Bosnian Serb military machine has been forced into reverse, yielding large pieces of territory to a Croatian-Bosnian government offensive in the northwest of the country and easing the siege of Sarajevo under the pressure of a 14-day NATO bombing campaign. Whether the war in the former Yugoslavia is in its endgame or not, the dramatic shifts in the military and territorial balance should have a salutary effect on peace negotiations. The myth of invincibility, which the Bosnian Serbs wrapped around themselves--and which much of the outside world...
...this came NATO's air campaign against Bosnian Serb air defense installations and ammunition storage facilities. The full impact is yet to be assessed, but the targets were "severely reduced," in the U.S. Defense Department's curt reading after the bombing halt was extended indefinitely last week. Apparently crucial was a Sept. 10 strike on command-control and communications facilities around the Bosnian Serbs' stronghold of Banja Luka; several cruise missiles crippled the installations just as the Croatian-Bosnian offensive began in the northwest...