By 8:30 Saturday morning, 10 advisers in coats and ties and one in a skirt were seated around the table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, awaiting their Commander in Chief. This was the moment of truth, when Bill Clinton -- breezing in wearing a golf shirt -- would wrestle with the options for action in Bosnia one more time. For more than four hours, the advisers went over the pros, but mainly the cons, of military intervention in Bosnia. "The President listened and everyone talked," said one participant. "It was not a session called to ratify his ready-made...
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