Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practical level, the strategy was to take land needed to open a rail link between their forces and kindred units holding territory across the border in Croatia -- a prospect that prompted the Croatian government to threaten intervention. Beyond that, the unpunished siege of Bihac could and did shatter Western resolve...
...official circles, Western Europe was delighted at Washington's apparent decision to drop the calls for bombing the Serbs that had so riled Paris and London. Some news accounts crowed that the turnabout marked Europe's first success in calling the tune on a major alliance policy. But how successful is the European line? U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali got a faceful of answers last week as he flew into Sarajevo demanding cease-fires. He left empty-handed amid jeers and snubs, underscoring how low the U.N. stands in Bosnian public opinion. Radovan Karadzic, head of the rebel Serb...
Last week the Western front was roiling just about everywhere. As Christopher was peddling a revamped approach before NATO, Bob Dole was winding up visits to London and Brussels during which he called for an end to the arms embargo against the Bosnians. The man who will soon become the Republican majority leader in the U.S. Senate was given short shrift in Britain, where Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind termed American criticisms of British policy "disgraceful" and demanded that Washington remain silent if it would not send troops to Bosnia...
...masks a bad conscience." His view was echoed in Washington by a similar criticism of Clinton, who has kept the dispute at arm's length and did not even attend last week's policy review. A former Administration official said, "Bill Clinton was not able to lead the Western alliance. Did he try? Who cares? He struck out." The ashes of the policy are being tasted in Bihac, but they have soiled every corner of the new world order...
More like a complete overhaul. Even before the military grabbed power in September 1991, Haiti had the fewest telephones, least electric power and lowest gross domestic product in the western hemisphere. After three years of terrorist misrule, real GDP fell one-third, income dropped to $205 per capita, and the gourde lost half its value. The government deficit soared to 10 times its former level, while revenues dropped by half: by some estimates, only 2,500 people in a population of nearly 7 million paid income taxes...