Word: owen
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Tutors last week said that Li also had some influence in the hiring last fall of his girlfriend, Fiona Murray, and in 1991 of a longtime friend, Owen Young. Liem makes all final decisions on tutor hiring...
...Bosnia over the last year: broken cease-fires, broken promises and broken lives. So it should have come as no surprise that the Bosnian Serb parliament shattered hopes by again rejecting peace last week. This after their leader, Radovan Karadzic, had signaled his willingness to support the Vance-Owen peace plan, a proposal that has already been accepted by both the Croats and the Bosnian Muslims...
Action seemed imperative. The Bosnian Serbs had turned down the Vance-Owen peace plan and laid siege to a new brace of Muslim towns. Boris Yeltsin, his referendum victory safe, announced he would no longer shield the Serbs indiscriminately from "the will of the world." Former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others, counseled military force. People compared the Serbian aggression to the Holocaust, thus suggesting that intervention was a moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison...
...support for military action, Clinton sent Christopher speeding across the Atlantic to solicit agreement or amendment before making his plan fully public. Meanwhile, the Bosnian Serbs moved to parry the building offensive. They agreed to attend a weekend peace conference in Athens with the other parties to the Vance-Owen peace plan and said their so-called parliament would meet on May 5 to reconsider a proposed settlement. "They must do more than simply sign a peace plan," Christopher warned at his Saturday briefing. "It will take actions on the ground to convince the international community of their good faith...
...protect the Bosnians in the meantime. They do not expect to roll back all Serbian gains, and they think the U.S. should endorse any solution adopted by all the Bosnian factions -- as long as it inflicts some penalty for ethnic cleansing. In practice, that means accepting the current Vance-Owen plan, even if it gives the Serbs nearly everything they want...