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...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...
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...
...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...
...year Bosnian war that has resulted in 200,000 people dead or missing, those four U.S. bombs were a military pinprick. Politically, however, they shook the ground in all directions -- for a few days. As Bosnia lay relatively quiet, Washington took pride in its muscle flexing. "Every time we have been firm," said Clinton, "it has been a winner for the peace process." The Bosnian Serbs, who denounced the strikes as an intervention in support of the Muslims they are trying to crush, broke off contact with the U.N., charging that it had chosen sides...
...Boston Serbs have not failed to comprehend this lesson. Month after month of "final deadline" came and went, culminating in nothing more than an aptly-named "pinprick bombing". General Cedras, the Haitian strongman, also knows that there's no reason to quake before the Clintonic ultimatum...