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...President Francois Mitterrand, who must still face his nation's angry farmers, may balk at the agreement, U.S. President George Bush hailed the accord as a "breakthrough" that would bring a "comprehensive, global and balanced agreement" on trade that much closer for the 108 nations participating in GATT's Geneva negotiations. The Americans have cause to celebrate, perhaps with a glass of California Chardonnay...
ONLY FIGURATIVELY WAS THERE A GUN TO HIS HEAD, but that was sufficient. In Geneva the diplomatic efforts of Bosnia-Herzegovina's President Alija Izetbegovic fell into step with the daunting military reality at home. With his mostly Muslim government forces in control of less than a 10th of the republic's territory, Izetbegovic acquiesced to a proposal by U.N. mediators to allow his country to be divided into 10 autonomous regions. Negotiators stressed that boundaries would be drawn strictly on geographical and economic rather than ethnic criteria, with some functions preserved for the Sarajevo government. But because Izetbegovic...
Georges Charpak, 68, son of Polish immigrants, who served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...
...another of the rather novel suggestions in Faces which emphasizes a truly divided American society, Geneva Crenshaw (the fictional heroine of this book and his last work, And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice proposes a law which would allow employers to use discriminatory hiring policies as long as they advertise the fact...
...torn republic. But movement toward an end to the hostilities remains fitful at best. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, co-chairmen of the peace conference on + Yugoslavia, were encouraged that leaders of all three Bosnian factions agreed to meet in Geneva this week. With the spirit of compromise long since bludgeoned by atrocities on all sides, however, no agreement at the table is likely. And the deadly frustrations of the U.N. forces augur even worse for implementing anything on the ground...