Word: nato
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Despite recent U.S. coyness on Russia's desired entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Germany's Defense Minister made his country's position clear today, possibly setting up a rift with the Clinton Administration's Partnership for Peace Program. "If Russia were to become a member of NATO, that would blow NATO apart," Volker Ruehe told a conference of German and American business leaders. Why the snub? Ruehe claimed it would be too difficult to integrate the Russians into the Western alliance, in part because they refuse to learn English, the accepted "common" language of NATO. His U.S. counterpart...
American jets flying a NATO mission attacked Bosnian Serb targets near Sarajevo after a group of Bosnian Serbs broke into a U.N. compound and stole heavy weapons that were placed under U.N. control in February. The Bosnian Serbs' raid came one day after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic cut economic and political ties to punish the Bosnian Serbs for their third rejection of a Western-brokered peace settlement. Although he has been their primary sponsor in the 28-month war, Milosevic appears to be fearful that continuing to support the Bosnian Serbs would lead to tightened trade sanctions against Serbia, thus...
...however, was not going to tolerate the behavior, and on Friday evening NATO attack planes penetrated the thick cloud cover over Bosnia, trained their Gatling guns on a Serb motorized antitank weapon and blasted it with at least 600 rounds of ammunition. The mobile weapon, which was destroyed, was not among the arms purloined in the Serbs' morning raid. But the target was one of dozens of large Serb guns that have been spotted around Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February...
...NATO and the Clinton Administration hailed the air strike as a successful demonstration of allied resolve. But the Bosnian Serbs apparently remain determined to keep fighting -- and to refuse the peace plan that both Croatia and Bosnia have now endorsed. On Friday three Serb mortar rounds were fired at Sarajevo -- the first such attack on the city in months. "We are prepared to be hungry, naked and barefoot," declared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. "But we must fight for our freedom...
...BOSNIA: NATO vs. the Serbs -- Again...