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...president has also said that United States military forces would only be used as part of a multilateral peace-keeping force to enforce any settlement that is reached. It seems that Clinton is willing to wear a moral blindfold, to look the other way and work with the system in order to avoid military action...
Shafran said that once the damage was realized, the hotels sought to much a settlement of the losses with Harvard. The hotels would likely have accepted a lump sum payment of a portion of the damages or an agreement from the University to provide them with future business, he said...
Shafran said Harvard refused to negotiate a settlement, prompting the hotels to threaten the University with a lawsuit late last year...
...plan marketed by Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was too favorable to the Serb aggressors and militarily unenforceable. Yet they named an envoy -- veteran diplomat Reginald Bartholomew -- to establish an American presence at the ongoing Vance-Owen talks. Clinton also promised to use American troops to enforce whatever Bosnian settlement emerges from the negotiations, hoping this pledge will strengthen the hand of the Muslim-led Bosnian government. But one skeptical U.S. official called the plan "smoke and mirrors," doubting that the Serbs will take nonmilitary threats seriously or that Washington will ever let its forces get bogged down...
...bargaining table. But what can more talk produce, especially now that the U.S. has forsworn the use of military force? After criticizing the Vance-Owen plan for shortchanging the Bosnian Muslims, Washington is not promising to increase their slices of the partitioned state. Instead, Christopher calls for a settlement "that the parties have voluntarily reached," which would be a minor miracle. Then, if that outcome could somehow be arranged, the U.S. and its armed forces would help enforce it and police the gerrymandered borders. U.S. officials claim that their willingness to defend a settlement with force will make it easier...