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NATO has a new chief, a low-key Belgian foreign minister named Willy Claes, and he's expected to get the nod from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 16 member-nations within the week. Claes hasn't made the headlines in recent years, says TIME Brussels Bureau Chief Jay Branegan. But in the coming months his mettle will be seriously tested. "Bosnia poses a major threat to NATO unity," says Branegan. Western nations have threatened to arm Bosnian Muslims by October 15, after which the region could be the scene of an all-out war. But that crisis will be the beginning of his trial-by-fire. Next up are the Eastern Europeans who are clamoring to get into the Western alliance.
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