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...Administration took several steps to calm the mounting fury. President Clinton demanded that Moscow immediately withdraw from Washington any Russians involved in the alleged espionage, and called for cooperation in U.S. efforts to assess the damage. A high-level CIA team was dispatched to Moscow to obtain information from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. After they returned empty-handed, Clinton ordered the expulsion of Alexander Lysenko, a Washington-based Russian "diplomat" who is reputedly the MBRF's top-ranking official...
...week Washington was trumpeting a diplomatic push between Croats and the Bosnian government, who have also been fighting. After U.N. commanders negotiated a cease-fire in Mostar, which included a promise to withdraw the artillery relentlessly bombarding the Muslim quarters of the ancient city for more than nine months, U.S. envoys hurried to put together a settlement uniting the formerly allied Croats and Muslims into a Bosnian confederation. At the same time, it looked as if peace efforts were turning into a pale version of a cold war superpower contest, with the assertive entry of Russia as protector...
Under heavy pressure from NATO, the U.N., President Clinton and -- most important -- their Russian allies, the Bosnian Serbs pledged their compliance with a NATO ultimatum to either withdraw their weapons from within a 12-mile radius of Sarajevo or turn them over to U.N. peacekeepers. At week's end U.N. observers were reporting "very significant withdrawals of Bosnian-Serb forces." However, there were new reports of Serb atrocities in other parts of Bosnia, particularly near the town of Banja Luka. In a Saturday address, Clinton warned that "American pilots and planes stand ready" to join in NATO air strikes around...
...front steps of his headquarters in his putative capital, his shaggy hair glistening with snowflakes, to announce: "We do think the war in Sarajevo is finally over." Beside him, Russian special envoy Vitali Churkin, the catalyst for Karadzic's conversion, nodded his agreement. The Serbs, Churkin said, would withdraw their heavy weapons from the heights around Sarajevo. In return, Russia would contribute several hundred soldiers to peacekeeping forces in the area. There would be no need for NATO bombs, he argued, because there would be no targets...
While Serbs began to withdraw from their positions above the battered Bosnian city of Sarajevo this weekend, nearly 2,000 college students gathered in Boston hotel conference rooms to debate solutions to world problems, including the civil war in the former Yugoslavia...