Word: nato
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International reaction was swift but, as usual, inconclusive. President Clinton denounced the attack and called for a U.N. investigation, saying, "We rule nothing out" in the way of intervention. But Defense Secretary William Perry, in one of his first public pronouncements on Bosnia since confirmation, said NATO would consider air strikes only if attacks like last week's form a pattern of "strangulation." So far more than 200,000 people are believed dead or missing in the Bosnian war; 2 million are homeless...
First, he partied at a Slovenian resort amid reports of glass smashing and heavy drinking ... then was in Croatia threatening war with NATO ... in Montenegro he announced a new secret weapon that "acts directly on the brain" ... and ended up in a ruckus at the Budapest airport, where a pistol was found in an aide's luggage...
Stanfield Professor of International Peace Robert O. Keohane supported the NATO resolution, saying: "I am in favor of a credible threat of air strikes...
...added that although he hopes force will not have to be used, empty threats have been ineffective in the past and NATO must be prepared to enforce whatever rules it sets...
Force in the form of air strikes, such as wasproposed by the NATO resolution, is necessary ifthe disagreeing groups are to take interventionseriously and genuinely seek a solution, Ekiertsaid...