Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week. By week's end, however, it was evident that no such significant changes would be made. As a Western diplomat put it, the situation in Bosnia was "going to be the same mishmash it has been." There would be no move from peacekeeping to forcible peacemaking, NATO defense ministers reaffirmed at a meeting in Brussels. At the same time, U.N. officials in the former Yugoslavia insisted that the new rapid-reaction force would operate under the rules that had applied since the beginning. The force would defend peacekeepers but would not launch offensive actions. UNPROFOR has always been permitted...
Even as new battles erupt, the world's focus is turning to diplomacy. The nato allies will try to muddle through until fall, but if they truly mean it when they say the only possible solution is a negotiated one, Milosevic is inevitably the key. He represents the only evident way to pressure the Bosnian Serbs into negotiations. Right now, he is holding out for a lifting of sanctions, and the U.S. is balking. If something has to give, the sanctions regime seems...
...location of the missile was the result of a shift in defenses recently undertaken by the Bosnian Serbs that had escaped the notice of NATO intelligence. Because it was launched from directly below, the SA-6 was able to hurtle up on the "blind spot" in the underbelly of the F-16's defensive pod, blasting into O'Grady's aircraft with barely 20 seconds' warning and cutting it in half. "We think this was the first time the Serbs fired an SA-6," said an Air Force official. "They waited until just the right moment, and they ambushed...
Meanwhile, as the Pentagon started reacting, planners were not holding out much hope. "We thought he was dead," admits one Air Force officer. nato strategists initially debated whether to send a Special Forces team to the wreckage site. The idea was swiftly scrapped when it became apparent that O'Grady's plane had crashed in the forests between Banja Luka and Bihac, an area heavily populated with Bosnian Serbs...
...point tried to squeeze water out of his wet woolen socks, without much luck. He found sustenance by eating leaves, grass and ants-but not too many of the latter. "They're hard to catch," he reported afterward. "He maintained his cool," said Admiral Leighton Smith, nato's southern commander. "He's very smart, he's very determined and very gutsy to have evaded for as long as he did using the equipment that...