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...Bill Clinton plan for getting tough with the Serbs. At least it is the essence of the ideas Secretary of State Warren Christopher was shopping around Europe last week as the U.S. sought support for a way to push the Serbs toward the peace table and end a slaughter that has taken at least 134,000 lives. The U.S. proposal is to exempt Bosnia from the U.N. embargo on arms sales and use air strikes to protect Muslim enclaves from Serb attacks until their forces are strong enough to defend themselves...
...broker a negotiated settlement for almost two years. Owen aside, there is no assurance that the genocide will moderate. Does anyone seriously think the Serbs will picnic as their opponents arm, or that they'll suddenly respect the lightly defended enclaves where innocents have gathered to escape the slaughter, the so-called safe havens they are currently shelling with impunity? Similarly, there is no certainty that the war won't widen in the Balkans anyway, and hardly any chance that the battle will be decisive enough to roll back the Serbs' territorial gains (although a new balance of power could...
...slaughter and bloodshed in Bosnia has not yet reached the level of the Holocaust--hundreds of thousands have died, not millions. But should we wait until millions do perish before...
...Baghdad's art galleries hang heartrending depictions of slaughter, ruin and misery, painted since the Gulf War. On the sidewalks, poor families sell their meager household goods to procure enough money to eat. In the back alleys, women offer their bodies for sale -- an extreme act of desperation in Muslim society -- and men steal cars or rob their neighbors' houses...
After losing its top five players from one of the best men's tennis teams ever, squads around the region thought Harvard would be ripe for slaughter. Instead, the Crimson has turned to its younger players...