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Even with the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. cannot divest itself of interest in NATO in order to concentrate on the Americas. It would be wonderful if the local hegemons in every region of the world would take care of their area's particular problems, but it doesn't always work out that way. "Standing up for what's right" isn't what the Europeans are best at, historically speaking. At this point, it looks like the U.S. will have to lead the way in Bosnia and in Haiti...
...remained a force on the nationalpolitical scene, engaging in a widely watched withdebate with Vice President Al Gore '69 last fallover the North American Free Trade Agreement.Perot opposed the trade pact, but Congress votedto approve...
...darkness settled on Gorazde, neither scenario came to pass. Instead, Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s chief civilian representative in Bosnia, suddenly announced that he was close to signing a pact with the Serbs. According to Akashi, the U.N. would stop combat air patrols above Gorazde if the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire and released U.N. personnel held across Bosnia beginning last Monday. The Serbs must also withdraw to the outskirts of Gorazde and allow a multinational U.N. protection force to police the front lines around the city. The deal, brokered with the help of Russian mediator Vitali Churkin, offered...
...late 1980s, many kinds of fish were verging on "commercial extinction" -- they were still around, but not in great enough numbers to supply fishing boats. In some cases, countries have agreed on fishing bans until stocks recover. Last February, for example, six nations reached a tentative pact to restrict pollack fishing in an area known as the "doughnut hole," in the international waters of the Bering...
...British army and interned without charge. "There is nothing like being in an interrogation room to test your commitment," he says. He became a prison leader, and at 23 he was plucked out of jail with other I.R.A. veterans to negotiate a cease-fire in London. The peace pact was short-lived, and soon Adams was back behind bars, where he settled down to a "monastic regimen of studying, research and writing." He came out of prison a skillful writer with a sound intellectual foundation for his political beliefs...