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...their lives in the Bosnian civil war because the West dithered. She vowed not to repeat that mistake in Kosovo. But by last month it seemed that Washington was going to do just that. The unarmed peace monitors who had been sent to the province watched helplessly as the slaughter continued. Albright, nervous about the quickly deteriorating truce, persuaded President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen to deploy peacekeepers, then cajoled European foreign ministers into giving Milosevic a two-week deadline to accept a peace agreement or face NATO bombing. On a trip to Moscow in January, she laid...
...Harvard women's swimming and diving team (7-3, 5-2 Ivy) finished off its dual meet season with somewhat of a technicality: it had to travel to New Hampshire to slaughter Cornell, 189-110, and Dartmouth, 186-113, last Friday...
Until last week, neither the U.S. nor NATO was willing to be so bold. But spurred by the resumption of civilian slaughter, Albright insisted it was time the allies demand "an interim political settlement." All right, replied the allies, but only if the U.S. will follow through: peacekeepers must go in on the ground for years to make an agreement stick, and American troops must be among them. Administration officials did not say so publicly, but they signaled NATO for the first time--and confirmed to TIME--that they were willing to go along...
...logic rare in the Arab world. For centuries, men of the region have engaged in "honor killing," the intrafamily slaughter of allegedly errant females. Women have endured the custom, while legal establishments have tolerated or even condoned it. But now activists in Jordan, backed by the royal family, are dragging the issue out of the darkness. "We are determined to be an example in our part of the world," Queen Noor told CNN's Christiane Amanpour last week in an interview for NewsStand: CNN & TIME...
...clock back, away from the students' demands for greater democracy and a reduction in the power of the army. There is a precedent, and it is horrific: General Suharto came to power in 1966 as a man who reasserted order--but only after 18 months of anarchy and slaughter that left some 500,000 Indonesians dead...