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...this pre-positioning, many of those tapped in recent days by the Powell team have come away from the conversations skeptical that he will run. Several noted that Republican Party regulars are historically suspicious of insurgent candidates. Nor do they see him as an eager rebel anyway. So it may be that, having eyeballed the battlefield, the general may not attack after...
American leadership made possible punishing NATO airstrikes that rocked Serb forces still reeling from Croatia's blitzkrieg, and our resolution brought President Milosevic to end support for his Bosnian clients in an effort to end U.N. sanctions against Serbia. The balance has shifted in Bosnia, and the rebel Serbs recognize that continued conflict would only worsen their position. The Serbs have responded by making their first serious overtures toward peace...
Russian and Chechen negotiators halted their talks on peace in the secessionist Russian region where tens of thousands of Russian troops remain and fighting continues. Chechen rebel leaders also formally suspended their participation in the widely violated cease-fire, saying they would refuse to negotiate until United Nations troops were brought in, a move Russia rejects as interference in its internal affairs. The breakdown in talks came after a bomb attack gravely injured the commander of Russian forces in Chechnya and killed three others...
...night as Fidel Castro entered Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On his third visit to the U.S. since coming to power more than 36 years ago, the Cuban President is receiving a warm welcome. Although President Clinton is officially avoiding Castro, the 69-year-old Cuban president and former rebel was not hurting for invitations during the U.N. celebration. "Gorbymania, it seems, has given way to Fidelmania," reports Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth. Among those putting out the welcome mat for the Cuban leader: The Council on Foreign Relations, TIME Magazine, U.S. News & World Report publisher Mortimer Zuckerman...
...that "NATO will resume the air strikes if they fail to keep their commitments." But Karadzic vowed, "We will withdraw our weaponry," and said it would be hauled outside the U.N.-declared 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. The pledge was confirmed by General Dragomir Milosevic, the commander of rebel Serb forces around the capital...