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...move. But increasing the ferocity of the air war could threaten allied unity and shake the new cooperation between NATO and the U.N., and might also precipitate a split with Russia, which is a member of the Contact Group. In Moscow last week, a fit-looking President Boris Yeltsin demanded, "Why are only the Serbs punished?" He warned NATO to halt the air strikes or see Europe again divided into "two camps." American officials assumed most of Yeltsin's protest was for domestic consumption, but they took care to seat Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov prominently at the negotiating...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott headed to Moscow to try to calm Russian anger over the NATO raids as Boris Yeltsin intensified his opposition. Yeltsin's government today branded the bombing runs "genocide" against the Serbs. Yesterday, Moscow called upon the Security Council to halt the raids. Sally Donnelly reports from Moscow that Yeltsin is playing to the home team, talking tough as Russian parliamentary election campaigns proceed. "The Russians are suffering from 'former superpower angst'," Donnelly says. "If the U.S. had become a lesser power, and Russia and Europe were ignoring the U.S. and intervening in a place...
...mark. Kamchatka is but a tiny piece of Siberia, and elsewhere this continent-size region has been grievously wounded, and continues to be wounded today. "Let's say you decide to get away from it all in Siberia," says Alexei Yablokov, Russia's leading environmentalist and once President Boris Yeltsin's top adviser on ecology. "You travel up the Yenisey River toward the Arctic. You look across the empty tundra and think you are alone in nature, miles upon miles from the nearest person, and you decide to stretch out on the riverbank. Unfortunately, you are lying in sands contaminated...
...fact, reach such an understanding four years ago. But Tudjman's priorities are now said to have changed, and he seems to be bending over backward to assure the Muslims that his interests no longer conflict with theirs. Last week, for example, Tudjman turned down an invitation from Boris Yeltsin to meet with him and Milosevic for a peace conference. Tudjman refused to go because Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic was not invited...
Russian President Boris Yeltsinsays negotiations are under way to bring Milosevic and Tudjman to the bargaining table. The Russian government has long pushed the West to find a diplomatic solution to the Balkan conflict, but Yeltsin today indicated for the first time that force might be necessary if negotiations fail...