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...NATO mission attacked Bosnian Serb targets near Sarajevo after a group of Bosnian Serbs broke into a U.N. compound and stole heavy weapons that were placed under U.N. control in February. The Bosnian Serbs' raid came one day after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic cut economic and political ties to punish the Bosnian Serbs for their third rejection of a Western-brokered peace settlement. Although he has been their primary sponsor in the 28-month war, Milosevic appears to be fearful that continuing to support the Bosnian Serbs would lead to tightened trade sanctions against Serbia, thus weakening his grip...
...knee-jerk reaction to want to lift the arms embargo," says Graff. "It may mean justice for the Muslims, but it also means a nasty war." Meanwhile, Russia now wants trade sanctions against the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia lifted. That country, the Russians say, has done its bit to punish the Bosnian Serbs...
...Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic serious about cracking down on the battling Bosnians? We'll see in the days and weeks to come, says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff. For now, Yugoslavia's pugnacious stance towards its cousins eases the pressure on Western countries to punish the Bosnian Serbs, who rejected a peace plan last week. "Milosevic is doing all the dirty work for (the West)," says Graff. "So any consideration of real robust military actions does not have to be on the front burner...
...their rules, hedging was unacceptable, and the two sides were expected to take the plan or leave it. When the proposal was presented to the Muslim-led Bosnian government and the Serb rebels on July 6, it came with an ultimatum: if they turned it down, they would be punished. The Bosnian government signed on without conditions. But the Serbs, who have never met a peace plan they liked, coolly called the bluff. Foreign ministers of the five would-be peacemaker states are to meet in Geneva on July 30 and try again to muster the political will to punish...
...Senate committee today, and faces a full congressional vote within the next two weeks. "There will be a certain amount of rhetoric from both sides," says Laurence I. Barrett, TIME Washington contributor. "But I don't think it will defeat the bill." The legislation would ban some assault weapons, punish three-time felons with life sentences and add many crimes to the growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates...