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- <text id=93TT1012>
- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: Mr. Clinton Pulls Up a Chair
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- WORLD
- Mr. Clinton Pulls Up a Chair
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The U.S. opts to join international peace talks rather than
- fight in Bosnia
- </p>
- <p> First with Haiti, now Bosnia, Bill Clinton is discovering that
- governing is harder than campaigning. His new policy toward
- the Balkans, announced by Secretary of State Warren Christopher,
- lacks several ideas Clinton regularly promoted before November:
- lifting the arms embargo that has given the well-supplied Serbs
- an advantage over Bosnian irregulars, and using force to guarantee
- relief deliveries and access to concentration camps. For now,
- Clinton has chosen to pull up a chair and negotiate.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton and Christopher had said that the peace 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 in a Balkan
- quagmire.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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