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Clinton feels the strength of the moral argument for action echoing around Washington but is unwilling to start something without knowing how he will end it. He would like to halt the Serbian aggressors in their tracks, but he wants to take steps that provide clear, achievable objectives and that will encourage rather than cut off a political process leading eventually to a negotiated solution to the tribal wars. If he chooses to bomb the Serbs, he wants to be convinced that bombs will in due course push them into some mutually acceptable agreement...
Apparently, leaders are starting to realize that this is the situation the world faces in Bosnia. Pressure for military action is mounting from various fronts, including the United States Congress. Senators Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.), two influential leaders, have called for air strikes to halt the Serbian onslaught...
This argument cannot be proven wrong. Military predictions are always speculative. But the argument remains insufficient in several ways. Western military intervention would not aim at conquering land, but instead at two other goals: putting real pressure on Serbia to halt the fighting, and leveling the playing field if they still refuse. Air power would be the primary method. These are realistic goals with good prospects of success...
...Kalkaska, Michigan, the students know all about cramming. They just tried to cram a year into seven months. Their spring term bumped to a halt last week when local school authorities, glumly eyeing a $1.5 million shortfall in their $8.2 million budget, chose to declare summer vacation in March. All through a cold winter, Matt Johnston had trudged to a 7:30 a.m. calculus class he hoped would earn him advanced-placement credit at college next year. Though teachers rushed through their lesson plans as the premature vacation neared, Johnston still wonders whether he should have stayed...
...militia of Omar Jess, a local warlord with close ties to Aidid. Angered that American forces in the town allowed this to happen, Aidid accused them of engineering the attack and called for widespread demonstrations against the foreign force. Relief operations in the capital ground to a halt as aid workers confined themselves to their heavily guarded compounds after the fatal shooting of an Irish nurse earlier in the week...