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...Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.) says she can comprehend Stampfer's concern but disagrees with...
...enormous by network-news standards--and have an immediacy that the young audience can relate to. Reporting from Rwanda, correspondent Anderson Cooper took viewers along on a trip through the country in which his car got stuck in the mud and ran out of gas, before reaching scenes of slaughter so grisly he at one point gagged on camera. Cooper was also in Haiti in the days before the downfall of the Cedras regime. His reports had an appealing casualness and intimacy: "I was just listening to some Bob Marley. I was listening to the line, 'I don't want...
WHILE TALKS ARE THE BEST OPPORTUNITY for a lasting peace, until the U.S. shows its support with troops, the peace will not hold. The U.S. does have a moral obligation to help the people of the Balkans. Americans cannot allow the mass slaughter of innocent civilians to continue. The isolationism practiced in the West in the 1930s cannot be repeated. But President Clinton should seek congressional approval before sending in military forces. Without this, neither Congress nor the American people will give their full support to troops in Bosnia. SARAH FRANKLIN Auburn, Alabama...
...Ratko Mladic, will be barred from participating in the Bosnian Serb government. Milosevic is still balking at Muslim demands that Karadzic and Mladic be extradited for trial in the Hague, despite a new round of genocide charges against the two last week for the alleged involvement in the July slaughter at Srebrenica. Nevertheless, the Serbian President has pledged to cooperate with the Tribunal...
...House announced today that President Clinton will address the nation from the Oval Office next Monday evening in an effort to garner public support for the military operation. "But he will have a high hurdle to jump," says Thompson, "given the length of time that we've allowed the slaughter to persist and the general lack of interest in the United States over the Balkan theater." Congressional hearings about the troop deployment are scheduled to begin next week...