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...nearly three weeks the Serbs avoided testing the nato ultimatum, but meanwhile several developments had altered the situation in the war zone. First, in a stunning five-day blitz, the Croatian army retook Krajina, a breakaway region that for three years had been controlled by rebel Serbs. This offensive dramatically illustrated a new balance of power. "For the first time since 1991 somebody else other than Bosnian Serbs was gaining territory," said a senior State Department official. Second, the U.N. peacekeepers were redeployed to less vulnerable positions. For years the French and the British had objected...
Nostalgia, on the other hand, is not Roth's strongest suit. Sabbath's memories are frequently weakened by his untransformed self-pity. Furthermore, his return to scenes of childhood has an autobiographical tinge that clouds the distinction between the author and his creation: the shameless, self-destructive rebel who wants to be remembered as a "Beloved Whoremonger, Seducer, Sodo mist, Abuser of Women, Destroyer of Morals, Ensnarer of Youth." There should be no confusion between Sabbath the puppeteer and the novelist who pulls the strings. Of course, there will...
...elaborate ceremony attended by foreign diplomats, the warlords were seated on a new six-member Council of State. Andrew Purvis, Nairobi bureau chief, reports that they have reason to believe that the ceasefire -- the war's thirteenth -- will hold. "It is more promising this time because the main rebel warlord, Charles Taylor, has come to the capital for the first time in five years. This shows confidence on his part...
...with "quiet desperation" about the anger and despair that Friedan came to call "the problem with no name" and a doctor dubbed "the housewife's syndrome." It is only natural that modern mothers rearing children at home are more prone to depression than working mothers, and that they should rebel...
...toughest issue confronting Tudjman and Milosovic--and the peace plan--is the fate of Eastern Slavonia, the fertile and oil-rich region of Croatia populated by rebel Serbs whom Milosevic controls. If Tudjman, flushed with success, tries to retake that, he will almost surely provoke Serbia's powerful army into a fight. Both Serbia and Croatia have moved forces near eastern Slavonia but have been cautious. According to a State Department analyst, the U.S. hope is that Milosevic will relinquish his control in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and a promise on the part of Croatia that it will...