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...later. Hillary made it to her father's bedside in time to say goodbye. "When we got there, for the first couple of days," she recalls, "he knew we were there, and it was wonderful." She returned to Washington after 16 days, just as her husband returned from the Yeltsin summit. The next day she was scheduled to throw out the first ball of the Chicago Cubs opener with her father, who had taken her to games at Wrigley Field as a girl and stuffed her with hot dogs and statistics. She canceled...
Action seemed imperative. The Bosnian Serbs had turned down the Vance-Owen peace plan and laid siege to a new brace of Muslim towns. Boris Yeltsin, his referendum victory safe, announced he would no longer shield the Serbs indiscriminately from "the will of the world." Former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others, counseled military force. People compared the Serbian aggression to the Holocaust, thus suggesting that intervention was a moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison...
...BORIS YELTSIN CALLED THE RESULTS A "SENSAtion," and he was right in more ways than one. As the embattled Russian President celebrated victory in a nationwide referendum, some 3,000 angry procommunists took to the streets of Moscow Saturday in an unusually violent protest. They clashed with riot police, leaving at least 150 demonstrators and police injured. And while preliminary results gave Yeltsin a 58% vote of confidence and a surprisingly high 53% approval for his economic reforms, political opponents denounced the vote as meaningless; he failed to get the absolute majority of all registered voters needed to force early...
Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, once Yeltsin's ally, dismissed the referendum as a "sociological poll," and parliament chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov said it had "brought no losers or winners" -- just a weakening of the state. Yeltsin, however, took his victory as a mandate to begin strengthening his political clout. He summoned regional leaders to Moscow to present a new draft constitution that would turn Russia into a presidential republic with a two-chamber parliament to replace the present Congress of People's Deputies...
Clinton pledged to announce his choices within a few days. While he wants above all to be a domestic President, he is eager to appear resolute and make a difference in Bosnia if he can. He does not want to put undue pressure on Boris Yeltsin to cooperate with the West or to endanger French and British troops on peacekeeping duty. Even so, he is casting about for more forceful actions that might end the war, or produce a cease-fire, or guarantee sanctuary somewhere for Bosnian Muslims...