Word: nato
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...continuation of diplomacy by other means, what to make of Sarajevo? As the first snows fell on the nearby mountains, NATO fighter- bombers hit Bosnian Serb positions just outside the capital for the fourth time since February in retaliation for attacks on U.N. peacekeeping troops. The NATO aircraft dropped bombs and directed cannon fire against a Bosnian Serb position seven miles west of Sarajevo; they destroyed a tank. The NATO action was authorized after two French soldiers were wounded in four separate attacks. The peacekeepers had placed themselves between opposing Bosnian Serb and Bosnian government troops when heavy fighting broke...
...NATO has a new chief, a low-key Belgian foreign minister named Willy Claes, and he's expected to get the nod from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 16 member-nations within the week. Claes hasn't made the headlines in recent years, says TIME Brussels Bureau Chief Jay Branegan. But in the coming months his mettle will be seriously tested. "Bosnia poses a major threat to NATO unity," says Branegan. Western nations have threatened to arm Bosnian Muslims by October 15, after which the region could be the scene of an all-out war. But that crisis will...
...firing on the blue-helmeted troops. The Bosnian Serbs may be gluttons for punishment: Brigadier General Andre Soubirou, U.N. commander of Sarajevo, warned that any new attacks on U.N. personnel "will be met with the appropriate and proportional military force." The U.N.'s big stick in the region: NATO, which supplied the British and American firepower against the Serbs...
Meanwhile, the United Nations warned both sides to quit shelling each other at Sarajevo, or else face the possibility of NATO air strikes. Yesterday, the city saw the heaviest fighting in months between Serbs who targeted the center of town and Muslims who mounted an infantry attack outside the city...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher said 17 countries, including Israel and three NATO allies, have agreed to send about 1,500 soldiers to help American forces after the now expected U.S. invasion of Haiti. He added that assembling those troops shouldn't delay American military action, which the Pentagon said could take place within a week to a month. Meanwhile, about 160 Caribbean troops--the first to agree to serve as an invasion backup force--arrived in Puerto Rico for two weeks of training with hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces troops. The 17 countries, some announced previously, are: Antigua...