Word: yugoslavic
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...international affairs, Bosnia does not fit into any of the categories that demand intervention. No communist dominoes are at stake. Human-rights violations are gruesome but are not something for which any country wants to sacrifice its own soldiers. It is true that Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics are now independent countries, but Europe and the U.S. tend to regard Serbian aggression against them as internal ethnic strife, not the kind of cross- border invasion that breaches international...
...anything else the gathering moral crisis over Bosnia. Eight years ago, Sarajevo attained the Olympus of international favor, playing host to the snowy elite from the rest of the world. Today bobsledding down a slippery slope is exactly what Western leaders fear most about intervening in the former Yugoslav republic. Even short of a Desert Storm-scale operation, how can the deployment of multinational firepower be justified here and now when other peoples are also in mortal peril -- starving Somalis, say, or junta-persecuted Burmese? And if intrusion is justified, what force could conceivably sort out a vicious blood feud...
...removed. And Bosnia today has a legal claim on help that Somalia, a case of literal and utter anarchy, does not: Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia has aided aggression against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats every step of the way in the interest of carving out a Greater Serbia. The Yugoslav breakup has spawned atrocities on all sides, but over the long haul this war, like Iraq's swallowing of Kuwait, is the fault of one big bully...
...offered a plan for bringing the carnage in the splintering republics to an end, or a clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill would have acted sooner on humanitarian relief...
...Eagleburger has become a subject of the House Banking Committee inquiry into charges that the Reagan and Bush Administrations improperly allowed Iraq to use U.S. funds and sensitive American technology to build its war machine. The committee is also probing Eagleburger's actions as a onetime director of a Yugoslav bank that was later convicted of money laundering. Eagleburger has not been linked directly to any illegal or improper activities. But rather than endure the messy publicity that confirmation hearings would generate in the midst of the election season, Bush will probably ask Eagleburger to soldier on as Acting Secretary...