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...American--would stream into Bosnia. The provisions of the peace agreement now being discussed would give NATO's military peace force a license to throw its weight around throughout Bosnia. They could also involve the I-FOR in a fire fight the first time it crashes a Serb roadblock or seizes artillery pieces from the Bosnian army. Once the peace is shattered and American forces begin taking casualties, voices will be raised in the U.S., loudly demanding answers: What makes Bosnia worth dying for? What vital national interest is involved? In fact, the questioning has already begun, as Congress sends...
...next big issue is China and Taiwan," says Chiang. "Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen warned today that they would use force if necessary to unify China. The Chinese will meet with vice-president Gore, who went to Japan in Clinton's place. But the Taiwan question remains the big roadblock to improving U.S.-China relations...
...questioner raised the issue of the question of Jerusalem, which has been a major roadblock in the peace efforts...
These issues came to a head in February, when the antitrust settlement Gates reached last July with Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman ran into a roadblock in the person of federal judge Stanley Sporkin. In a widely quoted decision, Judge Sporkin rejected the deal, agreeing with most observers, who believe it was too favorable to Microsoft. "It is clear to this court," he wrote, "that if it signs the decree presented to it, the message will be that Microsoft is so powerful that neither the market nor the government is capable of dealing with all of its monopolistic practices...
Nightmover ended on the morning of Feb. 21, 1994, when Ames left his house in Arlington, stepped into his Jaguar and drove into an FBI roadblock a short distance away. The arrest of Ames and his wife came one day before he was scheduled to leave for Moscow on CIA business. The FBI was not about to risk Ames' going to Russia and perhaps never coming back. Slouched in the back of the car that took him to the bureau's office at Tysons Corner, Virginia, Ames repeated to himself again and again, "Think . Think . Think." He knew that...