Word: nato
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...officials and NATO leaders forged ahead with plans to rescue about 200 U.N. peacekeepers held hostage by Serbs in Bosnia, even though U.S. officials are uneasy about President Clinton's offer to send in up to 25,000 U.S. troops to complete the mission. Defense Secretary William Perry said the U.N. would have to make the decision to move in -- action that, ironically, would signal a larger U.S. intention to stay out of the war. But if it happens, he added, the American soldiers would be prepared to handle Serbs with "overwhelming force." (The Bosnian Serbs have said they...
...President Clinton offered to send 15,000 American soldiers to help in the withdrawal of the 24,000 U.N.peacekeepers in Bosnia. It appears to be another sign that the major international players are giving up on the embattled former Yugoslavia. Just yesterday, France called for the United Nations and NATO to draw up an exit plan. However,TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James Graffsays this new stance of the West to pull away from this bloody conflict is simply posturing. Unable to get the Serbs to accept their peace plan, the West is now "putting pressure on the Bosnian...
...They (NATO) need to take serious action against the Serbs. They need to start living up to the commitments they've been making all along...
...conflict, the result has been a malevolent kind of stasis. Bosnians are unable to find peace or end the war themselves, and the outsiders have no common ground from which to bring decisive pressure to bear. Moisi argues that Europe has failed an important test. So, of course, have NATO...
...between two cold-war foes. Even as President Clinton, on a quick stop in Budapest, Hungary, welcomed the kick off of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with a schedule for scuttling 9,000 U.S. and former Soviet nuclear warheads by the turn of the century, Boris Yeltsin complained about NATO's vote last week to consider membership for former Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion...