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...former ski resort overlooking the city. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic walked down the front steps of his headquarters in his putative capital, his shaggy hair glistening with snowflakes, to announce: "We do think the war in Sarajevo is finally over." Beside him, Russian special envoy Vitali Churkin, the catalyst for Karadzic's conversion, nodded his agreement. The Serbs, Churkin said, would withdraw their heavy weapons from the heights around Sarajevo. In return, Russia would contribute several hundred soldiers to peacekeeping forces in the area. There would be no need for NATO bombs, he argued, because there would...
Roosevelt condemns the Weld-endorsed plan to legalize gambling in Boston Harbor as "short-sighted" and as a catalyst for "cultural decay...
McArthur, who was touted as "the prime moverbehind the negotiations" in a Globe articleyesterday, refused to describe himself as theprimary catalyst, but said he had been veryinvolved in planning the agreement...
...Proudfit will really be the catalyst for us," says Cara Frey, one of the team's three co-captains. "She will play a huge role for us, and she just got better and better as last year went...
Afghanistan was a powerful catalyst in activating fundamentalist Muslim youth, inspiring if not actually training many militants. During the 1980s, thousands of volunteers from 50 countries rallied to the rebel mujahedin. Most of them worked for relief organizations or in hospitals and schools. A few thousand actually went into the field to fight. Some returned home to cause serious trouble for their rulers. Several of those arrested in the World Trade Center bombing were veterans of the Afghan campaign. The now imprisoned Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman made at least three trips to Afghanistan during...