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...then? The U.S., leading the U.N.? Perhaps. Or is it all too late? The least that America should do, for now, is to end the arms embargo that has kept the Bosnian Muslims from defending themselves against the ruthless "victims" from Serbia...
...Balkan blame game. They have been known to bomb their own people in Bosnia, hoping the Serbs and the Croats would be held responsible and Western allies would intervene on their side. But they are also angry at the Clinton Administration for refusing to lift an arms embargo despite earlier pledges...
FIRST WITH HAITI, NOW BOSNIA, BILL CLINTON IS DIScovering that governing is harder than campaigning. His new policy toward the Balkans, announced by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, lacks several ideas Clinton regularly promoted before November: lifting the arms embargo that has given the well- supplied Serbs an advantage over Bosnian irregulars, and using force to guarantee relief deliveries and access to concentration camps. For now, Clinton has chosen to pull up a chair and negotiate...
...process might yet rescue them from that plan. Irfan Ljubijankic, head of the local leadership committee, denounces Vance-Owen as a potential "win for Serbia," and clings to the hope that Clinton's new policy "is more radical than it appeared." He is convinced that the U.N.-ordered arms embargo will eventually be lifted, so that Bosnian fighters can be re-equipped. "Fighting is not our will," he says. "It is an imperative to survive...
Even with the arms embargo, the Bosnian army's Fifth Corps in Bihac is holding its own against the Serbs. Its commanders loudly reject the Vance-Owen proposal. "If they try to impose that plan," says Captain Ramiz Drekovic, "we will continue our war until we liberate Bosnia and Herzegovina. It could take a year, five years, 10 or a hundred...