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...they changed their minds and decided to move against the eastern enclaves is another matter the Western governments are trying to figure out. Many military officers, including some on the U.N. staff and at nato, believe the Serbs are acting to pre-empt the new 10,000-troop Rapid Reaction Force the French, British and Dutch decided to deploy after hundreds of their peacekeepers were taken hostage...
Dolly's pretty mouth has other things to teach him as well. The girl and her twin brother (Gordon Rand) have evolved a rapid-fire patter that tongue-ties everyone around them. Smith and Rand do a nifty job of depicting the deepest sibling affinities. They can finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley...
...take offensive action to retake the area. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he doubted that the U.N. could protect the remaining safe areas from capture by Serb troops. Security Council members are divided on how torespond to Serb aggression. France strongly advocates a military solution, using the new rapid reaction force to retake Srebrenica. But Russia is equally adamant that the U.N. should seek a diplomatic resolution, andTIME's Bruce Nelansays Russia would veto any resolution to use force. "The U.N. has really been trying to avoid making a decisionon this, since none of their alternatives are very good...
...Africa during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention in 1984 attracted 27 groups from across the country; there are now 940 groups. Professor Wiktor Osiatynski, chairman of the Commission of Education on Alcoholism in Warsaw's Stefan Batory Foundation, says A.A.'s rapid rise in Poland can largely be attributed to the Solidarity trade-union movement. "Solidarity was the first event in Poland's history where people began to realize that they could tackle their problems by organizing themselves, instead of looking to their leaders, to someone else, to solve their problems...
...states define flag and desecration. But this leads to the problem foreseen by Reed: that a man innocently wearing flag-motif briefs may cross a state line only to find himself hoisted up the nearest flagpole and saluted by troops of Boy Scouts. Furthermore, with the rapid devolution of powers from the Federal Government to the states, a state may be tempted to define "the flag" as its own state flag. Since hardly anyone knows what the state flags look like, we would live in constant fear of desecrating one that resembles, say, a paper towel...