Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher might have cynically written Yugoslavia off as a special cultural case that matters little, or have accepted completely the flawed UN plan. It testifies to their conscience and judgment that they decided to cash in some new chips in an effort to improve America's bargaining position in Bosnia...
...humanitarian" act of charity. The Pentagon's operational plans to fly at high altitudes, at night, without escorts, supposedly would minimize the danger. "We think the risks are very small," said Clinton. He dismissed fears that the U.S. would become entangled in the demonic conflicts tearing at the former Yugoslavia, saying that Washington was embarked only on a short-term emergency mission. Not everyone was reassured by an Administration facing its first major diplomatic dilemma: how to square campaign talk of tougher action against Serbian aggression with the European and Russian reluctance to interfere militarily in what they...
...each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says a skeptical Pentagon source, "would be lucky to hit Yugoslavia." Finding and hitting the drop zones in tightly surrounded enclaves only 5-to-10-miles wide, at night, in the poor weather and mountainous terrain of the region will be difficult, and there will be no trained personnel on the ground to help. Some of the aid could easily...
...this sounds like a torturous path, it is because any policy toward the paranoiac convulsions in former Yugoslavia is bound to contain contradictions and weaknesses. In insisting on protecting their own troops in Sarajevo at all costs, Britain and France have turned these peacekeeping forces into hostages easily manipulated by the Serbs. All the humanitarian aid seems occasionally absurd when the people for whom it is destined are routinely shelled, ethnically cleansed or raped...
...start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists threatened to bomb Western's Europe's nuclear facilities if its governments intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia...