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...State Department today outlined a U.S. policy option: stepping up military involvement -- with a $5 billion price tag. With the funding, U.S. forces could increase air strikes, supply weapons ranging from tanks to rocket-propelled grenades and train the Bosnian military. The price tag brought gasps of bipartisan congressional shock. "This is quite an eye-opener," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (D-N.J.), while House Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) warned that the strategy could "Americanize the war." And Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the future House Speaker, said there was no way the Administration could spend that...
Bosnian Serbs fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a French armored personnel carrier on U.N. peacekeeping duty outside Sarajevo, wounding a French soldier. In retaliation for that attack and three others by the Bosnian Serbs, three NATO jets destroyed a Bosnian Serb tank that had violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs...
...ignite the final stage of this rocket, the next stop is going to be the United States Senate," Romney told a crowd of cheering supporters at the Boston Sheraton in the Back...
...same one who showed amazing aptitude for foreign affairs early on in the Bush administration by asking a group of Samoans. "Are we all happy campers?" The same Quayle who was photographed in ElSalvador pointing a rocket launcher at his elbow...
Ordinarily, a few miscues with a resupply ship would not create such suspense. But a series of foul-ups had left the space station in a precarious state. A resupply mission scheduled for late July had to be canceled for lack of a rocket. And while a previous mission arrived without a hitch, the edibles had mostly disappeared -- looted, say insiders, by underpaid, overworked ground-support technicians...