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...kept the Serbs preoccupied, the Croat-Muslim juggernaut was free to surge ahead, and by last Wednesday it stood within 30 miles of the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka, raising fears that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic might intervene. But Milosevic has recently banked his fortunes on posing as a broker for peace--a role he has no intention of jeopardizing by sending in troops. "The bottom line is that Milosevic wants a deal," says a Pentagon official, referring to the part of the peace agreement that will end the U.N. sanctions that have been throttling Serbia's economy since...
...NATO to show its muscle. "I am delighted," said Chirac, "that the Americans have become strongly involved for the past few weeks." The British were solidly behind air strikes until, as Defense Minister Michael Portillo said, "the threat to Sarajevo is lifted." Privately, London had been asking Washington to broker a local cease-fire around the Bosnian capital. Now that it is in place, Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind hopes for, if not steady progress, then at least "three steps forward and one step back...
...party's top contributors earlier this year, Democratic Party chairman Christopher Dodd was asked pointedly, "What does the Democratic Party stand for?" Dodd's hemming and hawing did not satisfy the crowd. "It soon became apparent that he didn't have the answer," recalls Gary Hindes, a bond broker and chairman of the Democratic Party of Delaware...
...took two towns in Bosnia controlled by the Serbs. Following that action, the Croats seemed to gear up for a full-scale offensive. There was a brief moment of hope when the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, announced concessions by the Serbs. The U.S. had been trying to broker a peaceful settlement. But the moment passed; at 5 a.m. on Friday, the shells began falling on Knin...
Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic may dupe the international community, but the man who started the war cannot become a peacemaker overnight. Even if Milosevic is being honest about his new intentions of becoming a peace broker in the war, internal nationalist pressures, especially from the Serbian Orthodox Church, will eventually prevent any softening of his position. And just as Milosevic cannot change overnight, neither can genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia be remedied overnight. The inhuman wounds need time to heal. The solution to the region's problems requires, first and foremost, patience...