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Christopher announced today that the Bosnia peace talks will be held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, starting on October 31. TIME's Douglas Waller reports that the State Department sought a large facility that has roughly equal houses for each president -- where, as State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns put it, "they don't have to bump into each every morning over orange juice. They're all presidents and they don't like each other. If you put Milosevic in a building that's nicer than Tudjman's, there are going to be problems at the very...
...prose. ("Sentimentally bloated, and wholly devoid of authentic feeling," said the New York Times.) The similarity to another huge-selling novel about a mid-life romance caused some wags to dub it The Horses of Madison County. Evans is rankled by the comparisons to Robert James Waller's best seller. "Both books are about middle-aged people who fall in love--so are a million others," he says. "Mine's longer than his. More pages per penny...
National Security correspondent Douglas Waller reports that Clinton Administration officials believe that U.N. troops are not equipped to enforce a cease-fire. "There will be large numbers of American troops on the ground in Bosnia throughout the presidential campaign next year," adds Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame. "It's a dangerous situation, and is politically risky for Clinton. Everybody's going to be waiting for 'the next Somalia.' The problem is that we have no control over whether the parties carry out the ceasefire, and no way to enforce...
...hybrid that operates under a secret "black" budget, explained that its satellite projects often take several years to complete and thus may produce a large budget surplus in any given year. "Congress has long had a dispute with the Defense Department over unspent funds," says national security correspondent Douglas Waller. "Agencies sometimes find themselves physically unable to write the all the checks for the money they are appropriated." The NRO says it has never spent money on activities not approved by Congress, but legislators will largely have to the agency's word for it. "What this shows," says Waller...
...territory the Muslim-Croats seized in the past three days brought the division of land the two sides now control even closer to the 51-49 split agreed to in the negotiations," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. Before the NATO offensive, Waller notes, Serbs held approximately 70 percent of Bosnian territory. Pentagon officials tell Waller that Croat-Muslim forces now hold a significantly greater chunk of Bosnia. "Thursday, the CIA and Pentagon had revised their percentages for what the sides held to 55 percent for the Bosnian Serbs and 45 percent for the Muslim-Croats. Today, Pentagon officials...