Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
Saddam's taunts are aimed at eroding the coalition's resolve. But Western officials insist they are having the opposite effect. They say Saddam's gamble that Europe is too distracted by the Yugoslav quagmire and President Bush too immobilized by his tough re-election fight to risk military action is a grave miscalculation. "If Saddam does not quickly comply with U.N. demands," says a senior British diplomat, "an attack is almost certainly on. We are not going to wait long." (See related story on page...
...incidents raised the possibility of U.S. and Western involvement in the fighting, if it resumes. Four Yugoslav planes buzzed two American warships in the Adriatic. Though no shots were fired, three of the planes turned back only after American radar had locked on to them -- a preliminary step to shooting. In Sarajevo a Canadian member of the United Nations peacekeeping force exchanged fire with a Serbian sniper, who was killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon...