Word: nato
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...NATO Jets Hit Bosnian Serbs
...threatened NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs and, for the first time, against Muslims, unless both sides stop violations of a cease-fire. The U.N. was responding to heavy shelling near Sarajevo by the warring parties in the past week...
...NATO planes bombed a target near Sarajevo as punishment to the Bosnian Serbs for seizing weapons from a U.N. depot. At least one antitank gun was confirmed hit, the Pentagon said. Sixteen NATO planes executed the attack, at the request of the U.N. The Bosnian Serbs apparently learned their lesson after the NATO strike and agreed to return the weapons they took. The latest attack represents a tightening of the noose around the Bosnian Serbs, who have few friends left. According to TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today enforced...
...intellectually stimulating part of the storyline is the close-minded reactions Fred and Ted (no it is not an "excellent" or even "bogus" adventure) have to the anti-American sentiment in Barcelona. During his first tour of the city, Fred comes upon a wall scrawled with anti-American, anti-NATO slogans. Equipped with his felt-tipped pen, Fred changes the Spanish word for pigs ("cerdos") to that for deers ("ciervos"). It ends up reading "Yankee Deers Go Home." The problem here is that you don't know if you are supposed to laugh or scoff...
...peace plan," says TIME Central European bureau chief James Graff.RUSSIA . . . PLAYING THE BOSNIA CARD? It's a sideline squabble to the Bosnian conflict, but it may have significant consequences: Russia is insisting that peacekeeping operations in the embattled former Yugoslavia remain in the hands of the United Nations--not NATO. But with the U.N. threatening to pull its troops out, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains the only legitimate body left to enforce peace in Bosnia. So why are Russians choosing this issue--and time-- to get difficult? Quick entry into NATO is their goal, says Graff...