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The NYT reports that the American negotiator Richard Holbrooke did not persuade Milosevic to allow the international war crimes tribunal to have jurisdiction in the region, and the LAT passes along the concerns of some analysts that the Serbs might take some observers hostage, thus boxing out NATO's ability to deter Milosevic via the threat of airstrikes.
Voters rejected, and will probably continue to reject, giving total power to a party that remains a hostage to the Christian right on abortion and that threatens to scale back government in a radical way.
.. and make himself a hostage to fortune (to mis-cite Bacon in my turn) when doing so.
Yet, despite Congress' action to lift this year's spending embargo, and the seeming alignment of both camps behind birth-control programs, these programs are likely to be seized hostage again in the abortion battle, for neither side seems prepared to compromise.
"This is what happens when you subcontract American foreign policy," says Kate O'Beirne ( Capital Gang ). The United States is now "hostage to the secretary-general," says George Will ( This Week ). Fringe artist John McLaughlin complains on his show that the United States is still "frozen into a military response" to the crisis, when the proper response should be more diplomacy.