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...have happened in Somalia had we not pulled out when our boys started getting fired at? Just imagine what conflicts we could have had with China had we held human rights in higher esteem than Sino-American trade. Or if we had pushed the envelope with Russian President Boris Yeltsin on his advances in Chechnya...
...Monday's summit, Boris Yeltsin and President Clinton decided to let their military men figure out how best to stage a joint peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. Friday afternoon, Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense William Perry, agreed on a force of "several thousand." But the two sides failed to resolve the central issue: whether the Russian troops will serve under NATO command. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow: "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which...
...Boris Yeltsin has been hospitalized with an apparent heart attack for the second time in four months. Although dogged by persistent health problems, the 64-year-old Russian President had appeared fitter in recent weeks, enough so to challenge French President Jacques Chirac to a tennis match. "Considering that Yeltsin has already outlived the average Russian male by seven years, Yeltsin's condition can be considered serious," says TIME's Sally Donnelly in Moscow. "It is unknown how long he will remain in the hospital, although a week is the common period. However, the three presidents from the former Yugoslavia...
...couple of regiments (a few thousand), or even battalions (roughly 1,000 men)." Although the two countries have agreed that the Russians will supply up to 2,000 soldiers to carry out support functions in Bosnia, Zarakhovich notes that politically it will be much more difficult for Yeltsin to commit combat troops. "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...
...Yeltsin's illness cast doubts on whether he will be able to attend the scheduled meeting with the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. A decision is expected tomorrow on whether the Russians will go ahead with the summit, possibly with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin presiding if Yeltsin is unable to attend. In either case, the meeting will be largely symbolic. The move is designed to quiet Yeltsin's critics in the Russian parliament who say that Russia has been left out of peace negotiations...