Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holy Ghost -- or church, country and army, as some claim. "When you get in trouble with the Serbs, please turn to us before raising hell," snapped Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vitaly Churkin at the Bonn gathering. "There is nothing that would require strong words or strong actions." NATO countries, partly to help Boris Yeltsin fend off ultranationalists in his country who deride him as Washington's lapdog, saw little choice but to bargain, though some had reservations about what one Washington observer privately called "Russia's greatest diplomatic coup in 10 years...
...Western leader, least of all the domestically minded Clinton, really wants to start shooting in Bosnia. NATO's caution underlined how the Sarajevo ultimatum was about saving NATO's credibility as much as saving Bosnian lives. But the new peace offensive also had a Russian impetus. Moscow, proudly proclaiming that its clever diplomacy had made air strikes unnecessary, told NATO it would not countenance any military campaign against its fellow Orthodox Serbs...
...Asha's place, a guy just started in, pointlessly, over his beer, "And what would you think if instead of the Russians, the Turks had come in to take over the Serb positions around Sarajevo. They're part of NATO...
...right here, in Bosnia, the Russians managed to assume a position they had only been dreaming about for a long time. And what's more, they have also finally gained access to the "warm sea," the Adriatic. Most ironically, they gained the moral upper hand, to the detriment of NATO, which forfeited any of the moral stature it might have once held...
With Bosnian Serb forces near Sarajevo obeying the spirit if not the letter of the NATO ultimatum, Sarajevans continued to emerge warily from their mortar- pounded hideouts into a still uneasy peace. But a new phase of sniping has reportedly started, with gunmen using silencers to avoid detection by U.N. peacekeepers...