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...accomplish that, we need to change ingrained attitudes and gender stereotypes. In an office the other day, I heard someone say that "Ed" was on a four-month maternity leave. I thought I'd heard wrong. In fact, the person speaking was acknowledging a more and more common occurrence--men staying home with a newborn. Our society needs to accept and encourage men's moving into traditionally female roles...
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her four-month hiatus from the political stage by addressing a Denmark summit on global poverty. Mrs. Clinton complained that too many countries are wasting money on weapons instead of investing in programs for the poor...
...keeping with the terms of thetruce signed on December 31, Bosnian Serbs agreed to end the blockade of Sarajevo this week, allowing food and supplies to reach its residents freely for the first time in months. The four-month old cease-fire now is holding for most of Bosnia with the sole exception of Bihac, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslim leaders continue to shell government-held areas. Sarajevo has been closed to civilian traffic since July...
...tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire as they negotiate a four-month truce...
...Sarajevo airport after two days of talks with leaders on both sides, U.N. peacekeepers would monitor the ceasefire and civilians would have free movement. Carter did not say, however, what would happen if no agreement is reached by the January 1 deadline. The plan aims for a renewable, four-month armistice and stipulates the two sides consider a peace proposal promoted by the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany that would give 51 percent of Bosnia to a federation of Muslims and Croats. Muslims already back that solution; Bosnian Serbs never have and are already calling it merely...