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There's a problem in this city that's even more pervasive than the playing of John Lennon's "Imagine" in Harvard Square. Driving in Cambridge is one of the most frenetic and perilous experiences in the reaches of civilization. If you can't catch that plane to Sarajevo, try taking a road trip up to the Star Market in Porter Square at 5:30 in the afternoon...
Even as negotiators in Geneva called for a cease-fire and presented a new peace plan that would carve up Bosnia into ethnic ghettos, President Clinton raised the volume by threatening air strikes to protect not only U.N. forces but also civilians in besieged Sarajevo. European allies reacted coolly to the second part of the proposal, as they had to a similar U.S. plan in May. If the United Nations requests action, NATO planes could commence bombing runs early this week...
...that matters most, is that the outnumbered, outgunned, predominantly Muslim Bosnian government has lost the war. Rebel Serbs and Croats, with overwhelming support from their kinsmen in the former republics of Yugoslavia, have together swallowed 90% of Bosnia's territory. The Serb militia is pounding on the gates of Sarajevo, and they are about to fly open. If nothing is done to police the Serb triumph and Muslim defeat, a final, horrifying bloodbath could sweep over the Bosnian capital and other Muslim enclaves. That fear spurred negotiators in Geneva and the Clinton Administration in Washington last week to try -- again...
...mood of deja vu, but this time the Muslims had to choose between taking what little they might get in a settlement now, or holding out for more -- and losing everything. Washington debated whether it could use a flash of air power to warn the Serbs away from Sarajevo without encouraging the Muslims to balk at signing an agreement. That was as much a sop to conscience as a calibrated military action, and, as usual, America and its allies could not agree on how much would be just right...
JULY 21 "The United States is doing all it can consistent with our national interest." -- Christopher, on the decision to do nothing about the imminent fall of Sarajevo...