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Perhaps they will, but finally the noose seems to be tightening. Last week the U.N. Security Council approved plans to bar all shipments of strategic goods through Serbia and Montenegro, including fuel, steel and chemicals. NATO and the nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat...
...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 on ostensibly temporary layoffs and 1.1 million pensioners. Between September and October alone in the two remaining republics of the former Yugoslavia, industrial output...
...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 sanction busters bound for Montenegro. The West hopes the pressure now being applied will unseat Milosevic and take the air out of the Serbs' war efforts in Bosnia. But it might lead Serbs and Montenegrins to a greater sense of shared victimhood. (See related story on page...
ONLY TWO REPUBLICS -- SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO -- remain in what Belgrade continues to call Yugoslavia, and the U.N. General Assembly is having none of it. The Assembly voted 127 to 6 to oust the truncated federation. In order to reclaim U.N. membership, it will have to reapply as a new nation and gain approval from the Security Council. And to do that, so-called Yugoslavia will have to prove it has stopped supporting Serbian militias in Bosnia and is working to restore peace...
...them by "ethnic cleansing" of the province's majority Albanians and then attempt a conquest of independent Macedonia in the guise of protecting a Serb minority there. Reports are filtering in to London of ethnic purges carried out by both Serbs and Croats in Serbia's sister republic of Montenegro: Croatia might also try to annex by force the Croat-populated northwestern corner. Any of these moves could touch off a general Balkan war drawing in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey -- making the parallels to Munich uncomfortably close to complete...