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...agreements Carter worked out with North Korea and Haiti, "Karadzic knows he can get a good deal. Both the earlier deals were much softer than what the United Nations had planned," TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelo says. But the entry of Carter into the Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities, had met with Karadzic just...
...more than 500 villages. Upon arriving, they have often been forced to refashion local government after the soldiers and strongmen who terrorized the area faded away like zombies in the night, leaving behind a brutalized population. In Mirebalais, the prodemocracy deputy mayor was beheaded and his body thrown into a nearby river. At the prison in Les Cayes, inmates were treated so abominably that one man's spine was visible through the lesions on his back...
...Allen made his remarks, he received a curt memo from headquarters. Never brag about Disney's use of corporate jets, the company's biggest star next to Simba the Lion was told; don't even mention corporate jets and Disney in the same sentence. Now, some stars might have thrown a fit -- or got their agent to do it for them. But Allen reacted like a chastened fifth-grader; he told Disney it was just a joke...
...Amsterdam with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and watched as many as five movies in a day. "He's the Jerry Rice of the Hollywood beat," says Jordan Bonfante, chief of our Los Angeles bureau. "Like the San Francisco 49er wide receiver, he'll catch anything that's thrown...
...institution of the referendum's results must be delayed until the courts have the time to formally throw out the challenge. And even after their specious charges have been thrown out, the parties can always appeal...