Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After cajoling the allies into strengthening NATO's threat of using airpower against the Serbs, Clinton ordered his aides to come up with a new peace initiative. Then he dispatched Lake to Europe to sell the proposal. Two years earlier, Clinton had sent Secretary of State Warren Christopher on a similar mission with disastrous results. Instead of forcefully offering a U.S. plan, Christopher merely solicited opinions, resulting in muddle and confusion. This time Lake was given permission to present the U.S. plan as something Clinton was determined to pursue with or without the allies' support, and the allies fell into...
...NATO FINALLY WADES...
Spurred by pressure from the Clinton Administration and yet another Bosnian Serb outrage--this time a shell that killed 39 Sarajevans and wounded 88 more--NATO decisively entered the Bosnian war. In the largest mission of the alliance's 46-year history, NATO aircraft flew more than 500 sorties over 48 hours, bombing Serb targets in several parts of the country, including Serb headquarters in Pale. The besieged residents of Sarajevo, who have long felt abandoned by the West, shouted with joy from their balconies as they listened to the bombs fall near by. The only NATO casualty: a French...
...first time since fighting in Yugoslavia began in 1991, a possible path to a peace settlement began to emerge. Their military position weakened by the NATO bombing and recent losses to the Croatian army, the Bosnian Serbs made what most observers viewed as a key concession when they agreed to be represented by Serbia in peace negotiations. At week's end the U.S. announced that talks were slated to be held late this week in Geneva between the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Nevertheless, the Bosnian Serbs rejected U.N. demands to end the siege of Sarajevo, leading...
...have rarely left. But on Wednesday, when the night sky brightened with bombs and the hills around the city rocked with destruction, grief gave way to joy. "I had lost hope that it would ever happen," said Alija Abaz, a modern-languages professor who woke to the sound of nato planes, scooped up his children and joined his wife at the apartment window to watch the smoky haze of the blasts turn orange and red over the city. "We had been disappointed so many times before," he said. "But the world's conscience has finally started working. We stood there...