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What seems clear is that Milosevic -- consummate tactician, political chameleon, master of the bob and weave and, for all that, the key player on the Balkan scene -- has determined that his interest now lies in distancing himself from the Bosnian Serbs and in the process apparently trying to put the genie of Serb nationalism back into the bottle from which he coaxed it in the '80s. If the sanctions are lifted, Milosevic says, he will personally lead a campaign to deliver the Bosnian Serbs to the peace table-and will bring off a comprehensive regional peace "within six months." What...
TIME has learned from several sources that just days before U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued from the Bosnian woods, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Frasure got from Milosevic the first news that the flyer was alive-and assurance of his safety. Frasure had been in Belgrade trying to negotiate a deal in which sanctions could be suspended in return for Yugoslavia's recognition of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In saying goodbye to Milosevic one afternoon, he told the President that Washington feared the pilot was dead. Not so, replied Milosevic: "We know he is alive...
...Grady shoot-down came in the midst of the U.N. peacekeepers' hostage crisis, and sources told TIME that here too Milosevic proved his usefulness. Following two NATO air strikes, the Bosnian Serbs had detained more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers and taken them to various locations, chaining some to potential targets of further air attacks. On the morning of June 2, Milosevic told Frasure that, while his action had nothing to do with the sanctions negotiations, he had acted to "save the national pride of Serbia." According to notes of the meeting, he declared that "taking hostages ... is like shooting someone...
...Croatian Serbs from pressing for the expulsion of U.N. peacekeepers from Croatia. Milosevic obliged. But what he cared most about was his plan, which Richardson took back to Washington. In it, Milosevic said Yugoslavia would recognize, among other things, "that Bosnia-Herzegovina should be a union of the Bosnian Croat federation and the Republika Srpska," both equal and both with the right to confederate with Croatia and Serbia, respectively. The Bosnian Muslims, without an adjacent motherland to support them, would be left in the lurch...
...proposal fell on deaf ears in Washington, in part because it seemed to be nothing new, in part because its requirement for lifting sanctions up front seemed to require blind faith. "We need an insurance policy in case Milosevic cannot control the Bosnian Serbs," says a senior Administration official. "Milosevic, for his part, is scared to death of what he considers the feckless American political process. He says, 'What happens some day when [what he calls] the German-Muslim lobby on Capitol Hill says let's reimpose sanctions?' Milosevic is dug in on reimposition, and so are we." Milosevic wants...