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...worse may lie ahead. This week prosecutors begin the second part of their case against Milosevic - for his responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Croatia. In this phase of the trial, he is expected to dwell heavily on how Serbs are victims, not perpetrators, of the Balkan wars, a popular refrain at home. "Milosevic was politically dead before he was transferred to the Hague," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, a leading Belgrade editor. "The tribunal has given him the kiss of life." That is quite an achievement. It was Serbs, after all, who dumped the ex-apparatchik from power...
...that if allowed to return, its inspection team would need a year to document the full range of Saddam's arsenal. That's too long for Administration hard-liners, who fear that Iraq could use U.N. monitors as shields against a military strike, as Serb forces did during the Balkan wars. There's also the problem of what happens once the inspectors finish their work. There's every reason to believe that, if left in power, Saddam would become more determined to obtain weapons of mass destruction. "Even if the inspectors go back in," says a senior Administration official, "that...
Plenty of places in the world have heard the cry "Yankee, go home!" But in the Balkans a great many people might soon be saying, "Yankee, please stay." It would be hard to overstate the impact of U.S. involvement in the region during the past decade. The U.S. helped end the Bosnian war and later tamped down conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia. America pressured the Serb opposition to oust Slobodan Milosevic and forced his extradition to the international tribunal in the Hague. Along the way, the U.S. won friends in unexpected places, notably among the region's Muslim population. Those...
...eight Islamic charities they believe may be linked to terrorism. The U.S. Treasury has blocked the funds of both Benevolence and the local branch of Saudi Arabia's Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. The biggest source of concern: some two dozen suspected terrorists have been deported from Bosnia and other Balkan countries over the past 12 months; most worked for Islamic aid organizations. "They were preaching good, and even sometimes doing good, while plotting evil," Lieut. General John Sylvester, commander of NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, told an audience recently in the capital Sarajevo. The irony is that Islamic charities have...
...Mager 2, Mann 2, Wallace. SB: H—Mager, Hale. CS: H—Mager. P—Balkan. Pitchers: H—Sheffield W, 3-1 (5.0 IP, 0 ER, 3 K), Ronz (2.1 IP, 0 ER, 5 K), Wahlberg S, 8 (1.2 IP, 0 ER, 2 K). P—Quillian L, 3-5 (5.0 IP, 2 ER, 3 K), Pauly (4.0 IP, 0 ER, 4 K). Attendance...