Word: nato
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While the recent ultimatum against the Bosnian Serbs appears to have been a success, it is only the beginning of NATO's involvement in the war-ravaged country. Sarajevo is just one of the many Muslim towns surrounded by Serbian and Croatian guns, and a viable Muslim state is still a distant prospect...
POLICY: This Time, Says NATO, We Mean...
...case, the ultimatum is narrowly drawn. It does not authorize air strikes outside the Sarajevo region. The Serbs will not even be required to lift the city's siege. NATO hopes that will happen if the Serbs can no longer use their big guns to offset the Bosnian government's advantage in manpower. But if the Serbs withdraw their artillery while keeping up the sniper fire that has killed many Sarajevans, that would not trigger air strikes. How come? Says U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Hunter: "We did not want to create any illusions that this will...
...claim that the Muslims faked the whole market carnage, using mannequins, professional actors to portray the wounded and old corpses provided by obliging Croat forces, who would have had to smuggle them into Sarajevo through Serb lines. Jovan Zametica, spokesman for the self-described Bosnian Serb government, remarks, "If NATO aircraft attack, we'll take them out." Drunken Serb soldiers on a hillside south of the capital mock the NATO threat. Bosnian troops are just down the hill, they say, and "if they get us, they're going to get them...
...after the notable and -- as Manfred Worner said on Wednesday evening -- "historical" decision made by NATO in Brussels, I bumped into a good friend on the street. He greeted me with a hearty, "Hello, happy fellow," quite unusual given the conditions in Sarajevo these days. It wasn't easy for him to hide the devilish cynicism in this greeting, nor could we keep from breaking up completely...