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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO ultimatum to hand them back. That was too much even for Yasushi Akashi, the top U.N. official in Bosnia. He had vetoed several previous requests by local U.N. commanders for bombing strikes, but this time he approved one. It came Thursday and was more than the usual pinprick: a squadron of 15 NATO planes flying out of Italy -- mostly American but including a sprinkling of other craft -- bombed ammunition dumps just outside Pale, the Bosnian Serbs' so-called capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITY THE PEACEKEEPERS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...obscure land called Chechnya is about the size of Connecticut, a mere pinprick even on a large world map. Its 1.3 million people make up less than 1% of the population of the Russian Federation from which it is trying to secede. But the war in this mountain enclave in the northern Caucasus involves stakes that are hardly Ruritanian. Obviously, there are the lives of many thousands of Chechens and Russian soldiers that could be snuffed out in the promised guerrilla struggle; at week's end, at least 16 and possibly 70 Russians -- counts differed wildly -- and hundreds of Chechens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebellion in Russia | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...Serb-held Croatia, the airfield location. U.S., British, French and Dutch jets were deployed in the air strike -- NATO's seventh since the Bosnian war started in April 1992 -- which will put the base out of commission for just a month. Yet, it represented a dramatic departure from previous "pinprick" NATO attacks in which one or two warplanes bombed individual pieces of Serb hardware, saysTIME Brussels Bureau Chief Jay Branegan. "NATO is quite pleased to be able to flex some muscle after a year of complaining to the United Nations, which has always wanted to minimize the use of force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO PUNISHES SERBS FOR NAPALM ATTACK | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Beijing's leaders are, like Clinton, prisoners of their past rhetoric. They have insisted so loudly on extension of MFN with no conditions that they might have to retaliate against even pinprick sanctions. Washington expects dollar- for-dollar revenge: if the U.S. restricts $1 billion worth of Chinese imports, China would take some kind of action against $1 billion in U.S. goods or services. The U.S. would suffer far more: $1 billion lost would amount to 11.4% of the $8.8 billion annual U.S. sales to China, but only 3.3% of the $30 billion China sells each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twisting Off the Hook | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...strikes around Gorazde, but the U.N.'s chief civilian representative in Bosnia, Yasushi Akashi, preferring negotiation, vetoes them. When air strikes are called again and finally approved by the U.N. bureaucrats, NATO planes are foiled by weather, and a British Sea Harrier jet is shot down. The pinprick attacks fail even to achieve the minimal logic of tit for tat. They become tit for tat -- when the weather is good and Akashi is in the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.N. Obsession | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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