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...cruise and air-to-air missiles. "This sends an unambiguous message that the power is here should the U.N. want to use it," says the commanding officer of the Nimitz, Captain Isaac Richardson. Clinton and his commanders have learned that Saddam isn't bothered by the kind of "pinprick" strikes the U.S. lobbed at Iraq in 1993 and 1996. This time, the idea is "to take a page out of Colin Powell's book and make sure that we really do have the capability to do a decisive job," says Robert Pelletreau, who served as Assistant Secretary of State...
...Iraq, and Russia was reluctant to tighten economic sanctions. If the Security Council did not act against Saddam, the U.S. could attack by itself, blasting Iraq with cruise missiles again to avoid getting pilots killed or captured. But that kind of attack could turn out to be another pinprick, or result in civilian casualties that would infuriate U.S. allies and the Arab world...
This time, they said, they would put an end to vacillation and to pinprick bombing. "What we must do today," Prime Minister John Major told the 16-nation emergency conference on Bosnia in London last week, "is spell out in unmistakable terms the consequences of further attacks" by Bosnian Serbs on U.N.-declared "safe areas." "We must mean what we say and be determined to carry out what...
...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...
...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...