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...that the day has finally arrived, is the mood so morose? Europe's failure to deal with the Yugoslav crisis has exposed its impotence in foreign policy. Its prosperity is undermined by global recession. Turmoil in the money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...around the world. Rape, of course, has been an apparently inevitable part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied, "Can't you understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped 2 million German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unspeakable: Rape and War | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Comparisons with the Nazis have abounded throughout the Yugoslav crisis, and there are some grisly parallels. The human suffering Milosevic has furthered is apparent enough. His orchestrated policy of "ethnic cleansing" has produced over a million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead, and more than 20,000 women brutally raped in a warped plan to produce more Serbian children...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: The Latest Crime in Bosnia | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...back up the no-fly order -- and further military actions like air strikes on Serbian artillery. British diplomats claim the U.S. has even floated the idea of contributing 100,000 troops to a Western force that could be deployed to prevent the Serbs from moving next into the former Yugoslav segments of Kosovo and Macedonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today, Somalia ... . . .Tomorrow, why not Bosnia? | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...PENTAGON HAS QUIETLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF AN Italian air base, just in case the Yugoslav conflict triggers international military action. Under an agreement signed in October, 12 American F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS would hop over from Germany and park at Gioia del Colle, south of Bari, Italy, when needed. The Italians have also agreed to allow expanded U.S. operations at Sigonella Air Station in Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On Down! | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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