Word: troop
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...week in Brussels, winding up with a 13-hour marathon session that ended only at 4 a.m. Wednesday. If the Serbs showed signs of massing for a full-scale attack on Gorazde, the last safe area in eastern Bosnia, NATO planes would pre-emptively attack the Serb air defenses, troop formations, armor and artillery in the area. If the Serbs still pushed on, allied fighter-bombers would range farther, taking out ammunition and fuel dumps and Serb supply lines. "Such operations," NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes warned, "once launched, will not be lightly discontinued...
...deterred. Why they changed their minds and decided to move against the eastern enclaves is another matter the Western governments are trying to figure out. Many military officers, including some on the U.N. staff and at nato, believe the Serbs are acting to pre-empt the new 10,000-troop Rapid Reaction Force the French, British and Dutch decided to deploy after hundreds of their peacekeepers were taken hostage...
...crucial, six-nation meeting Friday in London for unilateral permission tostep up NATO attackson the Serb positions and a new command structure that bypasses the U.N. The White House is also considering a European request to broaden the U.S. military commitment in Bosnia by transporting European U.N. troop reinforcements into the war zone. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says the White House has already voiced doubts that the 1,000 U.S. soldiers sought by Europe would suffice. Instead, he says, "the U.S. is likeliest to reinforce Sarajevo instead and try to break the siege there. It's the least militarily...
...everything that was agreed upon will not stand the test of reality," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a news conference. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a target date to signthe emerging accord, already a year overdue and one of the key preconditions for Palestinian independence.The first troop evacuations under the plan would begin by the end of August, and all Israeli troops would leave the region...
Koernke's reaction to the job's drabness appears to have been typically inventive. An officer with the 70th recalls that, he was employed for a time devising "lanes training," a set of simple, pre-scripted troop exercises. The assignment misfired. "Koernke came up with these wildly ambitious, grandiose scenarios," says the officer. "Nobody bought them." Every year the reservists gathered for two weeks of concerted drill, and the G-2s were allowed to train briefly with active-duty troops. Koernke returned with stories of espionage derring-do that were so rococo they became the talk of his contemporaries. Says...