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...West can prod, but only the leaders of former Yugoslavia can decide on a course. For now,they seem bent on further anarchy. "Too many people, too often and too fast, are prepared to resort to the use of the gun and the bayonet," says Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. As Lebanon demonstrated through 16 years of misery and chaos, no outside force can impose peace on a country -- or leaders -- bent on war. Perhaps the West can only sit back and wait until the ethnic groups feel they have no more blood to give. Then, when they...
...they embarked on a vicious plan of indoctrination. My parents enlisted every crunchy liberal concern they could dredge up from the recesses of their proto-yuppie minds. They preached about animal rights and the four food groups, anti-commercialism and sanitary concerns. Because they were bent on a mission of self-justification and shameless evasion, I missed out on Gunther Gebel Williams. Several times. And now he's retired...
...small plane landed to evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down to dab her lips with a moist cloth. After takeoff, the plane rose level with the white tops of the mountains that define Karabakh. The sounds of a war in progress fell away, replaced by the soft moan of one more of its victims...
These restraints -- and an early defeat for re-election in 1980 after initial liberal reforms had antagonized a number of interests, including the powerful timber and utility industries -- have reinforced Clinton's natural bent toward conciliation and compromise. Critics charge that he has been unwilling to fight hard even for programs that he knows are needed if they encounter strong opposition. Allies say he has shown a shrewd ability to focus on the attainable while avoiding battles he could not win. In any case, his record is a mixture of major accomplishments and severe disappointments. Some specifics...
...Apocalypse in the inventive French comedy DELICATESSEN, but the setting has the look of Gallic movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part...