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Lift the arms embargo on Croatia and Bosnia. Only an equity in weapons and force will draw the Serbs to the bargaining table. Moreover, the West must punish those responsible for atrocities; a lasting peace cannot be achieved unless those whose lives have been ripped apart by Serbia's rulers see justice done. It is long past time for the U.S. to take its stand as a world leader instead of a subordinate member of the U.N. Without American guidance and support to the democratic governments of Croatia and Bosnia, will peace ever come? ANDY DECKER Alexandria, Virginia...
...against up-and-coming green beret leader Ray Liotta. The two disagree over how to handle relations with a mountain village on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and while they are off on a scouting mission, a group of Viet Cong enter the village and punish the locals for helping Americans by shooting their elephant...
Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...
...Duran, who had argued that, in a fit of paranoid schizophrenia, he thought he had been chosen to shoot and kill an evil "mist" that was enveloping the White House. U.S. District Judge Charles Richey said the sentence, which includes no chance of parole, was sufficient both to punish him and to discourage others from similar attacks. Duran, sober and contrite in court today, told the judge he plans to earn a college degree in small business management while he's in prison...
...want to take outstanding students and punish them because they're here with other outstanding people." she added...