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...much for the U.N.-imposed economic sanctions that were intended to force the Serbs to end their belligerent ways. Bulgarian officials estimate that 100,000 tons of crude oil and gasoline have passed into Serbia by rail alone since the embargo was imposed on May 31. Add to that heavy truck traffic and considerable small-time smuggling, and it becomes clear that the ban is not working very well. "We are following the sanctions to the letter," says customs official Christo Christov at Kalotina, "but considering the amount of traffic through here, the Serbs are going to get through...
...question, however, is who will be hurt. Even in its newly sharpened form, the embargo remains a blunt instrument. So far, it has done nothing to stop the war still blazing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The popularity of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has sunk, but he sits as firmly as ever in the saddle. What the sanctions have done is deepen the state of economic extremis for most people in Serbia and Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million...
Instead of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, as Arab countries have urged, the United Nations decided to administer a stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping...
PRESIDENT BUSH'S DESIRE TO SPEED UP NORMALIZATION OF relations with Vietnam hit a snag just before Senator John Kerry's delegation left for Hanoi. Kerry was going to deliver a letter to the Vietnamese all but lifting the economic embargo. But ANN MILLS GRIFFITHS, executive director of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, threatened to go very public with her opposition on the eve of the mission. Griffiths objects to normalizing relations before a fuller accounting of American prisoners and casualties is made. The White House backed down, substituting an innocuous letter...
...Hanoi -- or at least some officials there -- was sending a signal that it finally wanted to meet Washington's principal precondition for re-establishing diplomatic relations: a full accounting of the missing. The payoff would be genuine progress toward normal ties and an end to the 17-year trade embargo, possibly before the end of the year...