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Perhaps the most formidable weapon in the arsenal of the Bosnian Serbs is their singleness of purpose compared to the contradictions dividing the Western allies. Those fault lines were evident again last week. Only a few days after France threatened to withdraw its 4,500 peacekeepers from Bosnia, French Defense Minister Francois Leotard argued for a more aggressive stance against the Bosnian Serbs. Military chiefs will gather in the Hague this week to devise ways to strengthen the U.N. presence -- even as their subordinates continue to draft plans for an evacuation...
Certainly Yeltsin appeared unlikely to win any cheap or easy victory. His forces could probably storm and occupy Grozny, a city of 400,000, within hours. But that would begin rather than end the war. Dudayev has called on his ! people to "strike and withdraw, strike and withdraw" until the invaders flee in "fear and terror." That was the strategy Chechen forebears followed in fighting czarist armies. They lost, but it took the Russians 47 years between 1817 and 1864 to subdue them...
...credit would be available only to parents with adjusted incomes between $20,000 and $60,000 who have children under 13. Parents who earned up to $75,000 would get a smaller break, and the full $500 credit would not be available until 1998. His proposal to let parents withdraw money, tax free, from new IRA-like instruments to pay for education, medical care, first homes or elderly care would apply to parents earning up to $80,000; couples earning up to $100,000 would get a smaller deduction. And he would allow couples earning $100,000 or less...
...week's end, to placate doubting allies, the Clinton Administration expressed a willingness to put U.S. combat troops into Bosnia, possibly as many as 25,000. But the pledge came festooned with important maybes: the troops would go in only to help the 19-nation U.N. peacekeeping force withdraw, and then only if the blue helmets came under attack and had to shoot their way out -- and even then only after "consultation" with a very unenthusiastic Congress. But even a remote possibility of American G.I.s shooting at Bosnian Serbs will hardly help ease the irritation between Washington and Moscow...
Stanford University's Faculty Senate recently approved a plan to implement a "no pass" grade, beginning in 1995-96. That will put an end to a period when students could withdraw from a class the day of the final and not have the grade appear on the transcript--much like cancelling an airplane reservation the day of the flight and not having to pay a cent...