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Sheltered in a warren of houses and courtyards, Bray and his men now faced another complication: more than a dozen Somali women and children who were huddling, terrified, against the walls. Fearing that if the civilians were released they would either be killed in the street or serve as spotters for Somali sharpshooters, the Rangers corralled the Somalis in a back room. Somalis would later charge that the Americans were using women and children as hostages. In fact, say the soldiers, the reverse was true: "We were under such tight rules of engagement that we couldn't effectively return fire...
...continuing the hard line later that day. Standing up to Japan never hurts an American President, especially one trying to escape an image for indecisiveness in foreign affairs. Meeting with Hosokawa at the White House, with Vice President Al Gore, National Security Adviser Anthony Lake and Secretary of State Warren Christopher present, Clinton told the Prime Minister they might be so far apart that there was not much more to discuss...
...equitable solution. Can anyone doubt that aggression and genocide will ultimately be rewarded; that Bosnia, if it survives at all, will barely resemble its former self; and that the "bold tyrants watching to see whether 'ethnic cleansing' is a policy the world will tolerate" (to use Secretary of State Warren Christopher's words) will have their answer? What will Clinton the saladmaker do and say then? He'll ignore the capitulation, crow that his artful diplomacy produced a negotiated peace and turn anew to the domestic battles that interest him most...
...recently as January, Secretary of State Warren Christopher fought with French diplomats pressing for a more bellicose stand in Bosnia. According to an eyewitness, Christopher, chatting with British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd before the NATO summit in Brussels about the long-promised American commitment to help police a peace agreement, asked him, "How do we get out of that...
...Warren's presentation to the Faculty Council, she said the University normally recovers the costs of employee benefits by charging the schools and departments a fringe benefit rate applied to all salaries. Until recently, she said, these assessments covered the University's benefits bills...