Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Officer for Warning predicted flatly that Iraq was about to invade Kuwait. George Bush refused to believe it, preferring to accept the personal assurances he had received from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Middle Eastern leaders. In recent years, the agency has produced several full-dress estimates on Yugoslavia. Though the scenarios were correct, says a U.S. official, "they seem to have had almost no impact on policy" -- probably because they offered only unwelcome news. Intelligence can be an important tool for decision makers, but no more than that. It is up to the politicians to make wise policy...
...Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where peoples that have lived together for centuries are now at each other's throats, there are today 300 Canadian soldiers sheltering the innocent. Soldiers from a country that might have been . Yugoslavia -- serving as protectors in a country that is Yugoslavia...
Even if the operation badly crippled Aidid's forces, it thrust the U.N. back into Somalia's chaos. It also underscored the immense difficulty of the U.N.'s new role -- not only in Somalia but in Yugoslavia and Cambodia -- in trying to make peace before the warring parties are ready...
While Western governments dawdle over assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Soros, 62, delivers -- perhaps as much as $300 million to date. From his pocket. No strings attached. Since 1984 the financier has provided everything from transmitters for independent radio stations in the former Yugoslavia to scholarships in the West for Eastern academics. Through his New York City-based Soros Foundation, he has funded struggling Czech artists as well as education projects in Albania and Ukraine. His philanthropy has made Soros "the most important single force affecting developments in the region," says Steve Larrabee, a specialist...
...chaos provokes a return to authoritarian rule. "There are two reasons why I support open societies," he explains. "One is the possibility of actually having an impact, of turning a tragic situation around; and the other, because, simply, history has no end. People may see a black hole where Yugoslavia once was, but in the future those people will survive, and some form of organization will emerge. What we preserve or support now will have a chance later...