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...news was no better on the ice rinks across the country as the NHL labor talks bogged down. A last minute settlement was reached, but only after the several days of games were canceled and the entire schedule shuffled...
Meantime, attention is turning to the U.S. military force that will go to Bosnia as part of the NATO operation to police the settlement. Disagreement is growing in Washington over whether there should be a small force or a larger one, although both would be far more heavily armed than traditional peacekeepers. The minimalists--who last week included a chorus of Republican Representatives--argue that if all the parties sign a peace accord, there should be no need to dispatch an expensive and domestically unpopular military force. The maximalists--including most of the Administration--say that a massive armed presence...
...ambitious young personal-injury lawyer in Boston, took the case despite warnings from his partners that their firm was too small and its cash flow insufficient to finance a war with not one but two conglomerates at the same time. Even if they won, two-thirds of any settlement or verdict was pledged to Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a Washington group that farmed out the suit to Schlichtmann. There would be staggering expenses for expert witnesses, legal specialists and clerical work. Last, and sometimes it seems least, was the compensation for families whose children and spouses had suffered...
Pushed back along a broad front, the Bosnian Serbs now hold about half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 20% less than before their retreat--and the approximate share set aside for them in a proposed settlement. Why the sudden reverse after three years in which they called virtually all the shots in the war, ignored pleas for restraint and thumbed their noses at the world? What happened to the soldiers described by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in a recent Time interview as "no doubt the better fighters"? Was the Bosnian Serb army ever as good as it was assumed...
...SETTLEMENT ACCEPTED. By HUGO PRINCZ, 72, Holocaust survivor; after his 40-year pursuit of compensation from the German government for 3 1/2 years spent at Maidanek and Auschwitz; in Washington. The settlement means $2.1 million for Princz and 10 other Americans denied reparations because of technicalities in German...