Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, remembering the mass murder of a half-century ago. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the German death camps, turned from the audience to address Bill Clinton, who was sitting behind him. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been in the former Yugoslavia last fall. I cannot sleep since what I have seen. We must do something to stop the bloodshed." Wiesel almost pleaded: "Something, anything, must be done...
...plan to Britain, France and Canada, all of which oppose military intervention because they have troops on the ground who could be endangered, and to Russia, which has rediscovered its nationalistic ties of brotherhood with the Orthodox, Slavic Serbs. Second, all the peacekeepers convoying humanitarian aid in the former Yugoslavia will have to be withdrawn, beefed up or safe-guarded against retaliation. And third, he must define the goal he intends to achieve...
SENATOR JOE BIDEN, just back from a visit to the former Yugoslavia, is preparing a memo for President Clinton that suggests one way the U.S. could justify the unilateral use of force against the Serbs. Biden plans to tell the President that because U.N. resolutions permit "all necessary means" to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, the Serbian gunners who threaten aid convoys are fair targets for American bombs. Biden will also suggest that the U.S. should abandon the arms embargo against Bosnia, thus literally giving the Serbs' victims more of a fighting chance. As one member of Biden's staff...
Much of the military leadership, including General Colin Powell, endorses this interpretation of the military situation. Often, proponents of the quagmire argument bring up the unsuccessful experiences of German troops in Yugoslavia during World War II in order to show the danger of military involvement...
...attackers, was postponed, to widespread relief. A hotline was installed to handle rumors, like that of black gangs' targeting white suburbs. Youths with carbines and "Korean Watch Team" jackets prepared to patrol Koreatown's perimeter. All knew the stakes: if things went really wrong, L.A. risked becoming America-as- Yugoslavia, a collection of warring enclaves. (See cover stories beginning on page...