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...more than ever, Russian officers are bitterly questioning what has gone wrong with their army. Trained to fight, many feel only aversion for the slaughter of fellow countrymen, which their government has forced upon them in Chechnya. They say they dream of one thing: to hear the announcement that President Boris Yeltsin has resigned, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev has been fired, and the new head of state has started negotiations to end the war and bring the troops home. But our men continue to follow orders, shooting and dying, and hope the day will come when the military will never...
...several secret reviews of their Russia policy since last spring, asking if Yeltsin would survive and whether the U.S. was too close to him. When Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in Geneva this week, he cannot appear supine in the face of the Chechnya slaughter. But how tough can he get without further straining ties with Russia...
...advent of agriculture upset the balance of nature, creating food & surpluses. And the practice of fattening animals for slaughter consolidated those surpluses into the dietary equivalent of a gold brick: the thick juicy steak, marbled with...
...release U.N. hostages, permit free movement of U.N. convoys and reopen Sarajevo airport (two U.N. planes landed on Saturday); in other words, undoing actions already deemed illegal by U.N. resolutions. Finally, he pledged to "guarantee human rights," a declaration of Orwellian hypocrisy from a man instrumental in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Bosnians...
William C. Slaughter '95 said he also blocked Yale attackers as Ferrell made off with the flag...