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...Lindner's cause more enthusiastically than Bob Dole. In recent months Dole has twice pressed for congressional action against Colombia and Costa Rica and tried unsuccessfully to attach a rider to the stalled budget bill that would place sanctions on those countries unless they pulled out of the European pact. TIME has learned that Dole has persuaded several congressional leaders to include language expressing disapproval of Colombia's and Costa Rica's deal with the European Union in the report that accompanies any final budget agreement. Dole insists that standing up for Lindner is simply good policy. A spokesman...
...tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says training "can begin as soon as the contracts are worked...
...great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...
...will not be the most dangerous assignment in Bosnia. That will probably fall to some 10,000 French troops in the Sarajevo sector. The peace agreement signed at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Dec. 14 virtually guarantees upheavals in the Bosnian capital. The pact consigns several Serb-populated suburbs to control by the Bosnian government. Rather than live under their hated enemies, Serbs are threatening to leave their homes in those suburbs and in the corridor to Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. Around Gorazde, some Serbs were stripping their homes of everything transportable--in at least one case literally including...
...peace pact is supposed to put a stop to ethnic cleansing, but the practice continued a week after the signing, when 93 ill and elderly Muslims in the Serb-held Banja Luka region were driven into Bosnian government--held territory. Last week they were joined by up to 250 more victims. These Muslims were expelled by Serbs who had earlier been ethnically cleansed from Muslim-held territory. The Serbs were resettled around Banja Luka and proceeded, as a U.N. official puts it, to "kick out their hosts." Right now Bosnian Croats are also getting in some last licks, despite...