PLAYERS Conventional Wisdom Clinton ( - ) You know you’re in trouble when the French say you have no backbone. Yeltsin ( + ) No stomach (or money) for a fight. But at least he leaned on Serb “brothers.” Major ( - ) Old CW: Maggie with a heart. New CW. Maggie with no guts. Milosevic ( + ) Butcher turned peacemaker actually believes U.S. bombing threat. Or is it a Slobo-charade? Li Peng (+/-) Boring Chinese hard-liner missing. Is it a heart attack or a Yalu River cruise? Saddam ( - ) Scary thought: A hit on Bush? Scarier thought: What would anyone do about it?
