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ZAGREB -- The U.N. protection force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia would rather obstruct the media than risk exacerbating tension between the warring factions. Last week it denied journalists access to an area of eastern Croatia that was devastated by Serbs two years ago and is now ostensibly under U.N. control. Said a top unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying...
...Rwanda, another disaster unfolds as the United Nations stands idly by. Racial fighting on an immense scale has proceeded in and outside of Kigali, the capital city, while only private relief organizations have aided civilians. Has the terror in the former Yugoslavia tied the U.N.'s hands completely...
This glaring racial and economic supremacism must come to an end. The U.N. was not (openly) founded to protect the social and economic interests of the West. The plight of the Rwandans should have gravity equal to that of the splintered races in what was Yugoslavia. Who can say that a Croat is worth more than a Tutsi? Who can say that a U.N. "peacekeeper" from France is worth more than a Hutu? Plenty of French people certainly can, but that doesn't mean that they're right...
NATURALIZED. MONICA SELES, 20, professional tennis player; as a U.S. citizen; in Miami, Florida. The highly regarded Yugoslavia-born athlete, who toppled from her No. 1 ranking after a knife attack by a crazed Steffi Graf fan, called her citizenship date "a happy day for me. I am proud to be a United States citizen, and look forward to continuing our lives here...
...staff is optimistic that there can be a peace in the former Yugoslavia. But the history of the conflict strongly suggests that...