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...special trip by Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose -- the top U.N. commander in the area -- to northwest Bosnia. Rose announced that he would fly to the Bihac region -- the site of the most serious cease-fire violations -- tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire as they negotiate a four-month truce...
...Bullets Over Broadway" is an entertaining picture and a light one, as was "Manhattan Murder Mystery," and probably the best sort of film Allen can make at this point in his career. Gone, at least for now, is the free rein we gave him to try weightier things, lost in a flurry of well-publicized scandal. Watching "Husbands and Wives" was alternately painful for those of us who were unable to forget how miserable he seemed going to court or defending himself publicly, or infuriating for others who saw him as a creep who had gone too far. The spectacle...
...cannot rein in his followers' demands, those fantasies could explode when they collide with reality. Haiti's economic, social and physical foundations are in ruins: "The ultimate developmental nightmare," says a $ State Department official. Even before the coup and the embargo, the country had the lowest per capita income, lowest life expectancy and highest mortality rate in the Americas. More than half the children are malnourished; tuberculosis and AIDS ravage the population. The nation's domestic output has declined every year since 1981. "Haiti is not on the way to becoming a basket case," said a recent unclassified report from...
Even Arafat's own ministers acknowledge that the Palestinian authority could do more to rein in Hamas. Said one: "We have functioned in a way that gives the Israelis a reason not to trust us and Hamas no reason to fear us." Still, the failure of Israel's efforts to save Waxman underscores how difficult that chore is. Despite its superior firepower, an extensive intelligence network and a willingness to use draconian measures, the Israeli army was never able to subdue Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Now it expects Arafat's far less sophisticated force to achieve that goal...
...though, admit to having had Head of the Charles fever in the past. "I went to prep school in the area and have been in Cambridge for the Head of the Charles for the last four years. This year, I would be very excited about leaving," says Jonathan D. Rein '96. "It's just a tired weekend when the Square is flooded by 16-year-old prep school kids...