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...AFTER ALL THIS TIME, ANYONE STILL needed a reminder of why the war in Bosnia must end, last week's events provided one. A truce had been declared and peace talks were approaching--yet the combatants clashed repeatedly in the northwestern part of the country as each side fought to win territory before negotiations begin. In the same region, the Serbs conducted some of their most barbaric exercises in "ethnic cleansing." Given this conflict's warped, through-the-looking-glass logic, it was perhaps only to be expected that auguries of peace would provoke the worst excesses...
...DAYS LATE, A TRUCE...
...BEFORE: a cease-fire is signed, the guns fall silent, hopes rise. Then somewhere in Bosnia a sniper's bullet or a mortar round or a tank attack sheds blood, and war begins again. Countless times since the start of the wars of Yugoslavia in 1991, a truce has been declared. Each time it has collapsed. Last week U.S. diplomats tried again, negotiating a cessation of hostilities that could take effect as early as Tuesday. But in contrast to the many failures of the past, there is a chance this one could last, clearing the way for a settlement...
With presidential veto threats hovering over many of the 13 spending bills that are needed to keep the government functioning into the new fiscal year, which begins this week, the President and the Republican congressional leadership reached a temporary truce. A compromise stopgap spending measure will fund government agencies at reduced levels until Nov. 13. It remains to be seen whether the extension will prove long enough for the President and Congress to hammer out their differences. Meanwhile, an unexpectedly fierce House g.o.p. rebellion defeated final versions of defense and environmental spending bills...
Spin doctors in Washington and Tokyo to the contrary, the eleventh-hour deal is more of a truce than a real peace. To be sure, the pact left both sides momentarily ebullient. In Tokyo an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar...