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...Anglo-American theater, the most important creative artist is normally the playwright or an actor. On Continental stages, from Munich to Moscow, it is almost always the director, who becomes as much of an auteur as in film. Even classic texts serve as mere points of departure...
...international politics, Munich is a word of shame. The 1938 conference at which Britain and France agreed to let Adolf Hitler's troops occupy a big chunk of their ally Czechoslovakia made the city's name synonymous with a cowardly sellout to aggression. So it is no surprise that the organizers of the international conference on the Balkans that is scheduled to meet in London this week staunchly deny they will countenance a rerun. Just the opposite, says British Deputy Foreign Secretary Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going...
...when asked what sort of settlement this kind of pressure might eventually produce, European diplomats sketch an arrangement that sounds suspiciously like a 1992 version of Munich: essentially a division of Bosnia into three highly unequal parts. Bosnia's Serbs might not hold on to quite all of the territory they have conquered; their leader, Radovan Karadzic, asserts that they would settle for 64% of Bosnia rather than the 70% they now occupy. Croats would get most of the rest. Bosnia's Muslims would be left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold...
Unfortunately, setting up cantons might not stop bloodshed in the Balkans any more than the Munich agreement headed off World War II, which exploded a year later. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has already announced plans to resettle 140,000 Serb refugees in Kosovo, a province of Serbia. Western officials are worried that he may well clear room for 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...
...BALKANS: Munich All Over Again...