Word: serb
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...escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built-in military advantage for rebel Bosnian Serb forces. "We have an obligation to the Bosnian people and to our principles to allow a U.N. member state, the victim of aggression, to defend itself," he said. Clinton, clearly frustrated, fired off a letter to Senate Republicans warning of a potential U.S. quagmire: "Unilateral lift means unilateral responsibility," he wrote...
...interview published in TIME last week, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic offered his services as a Balkan peace broker, promising to bring the Bosnian Serbs closer to a deal, provided U.N.-imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia are lifted. The proposal made no waves in Washington, since it recycled ideas that had been rejected by the U.S. Then hard on the heels of the capture of Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb army, Time has learned, Carl Bildt, the peace negotiator for the European Union, presented Milosevic with a number of ideas that might make a deal more palatable all around, including...
...several meetings last week build on Serbia's acceptance, given last July, of the peace plan put forth by the so-called Contact Group, composed of the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and Russia; that proposal envisages the future Bosnia as a union of the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Bosnian-Croat federation, on the basis of a 49%-51% allocation of territory. Milosevic would not only recognize the union but also make certain that the peace plan is accepted by the so far intransigent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Serbia would in addition promise to seal more effectively...
...allies' aversion to conducting that kind of mission in the winter means a decision to withdraw must be made in the next month. But weather is only one of many prospective problems. All the armed factions -- Bosnian, Croat and Serb -- have attacked the peacekeepers in the past, and could assault the retreating troops. The two-lane roads thread through mountains, giving an edge to those seeking to frustrate the pullout. Masses of refugees, fearing slaughter once the U.N. forces leave, would also hamper an operation. "The Muslims know that once the pullout is over, genocide is just around the corner...
...Security Council this evening demanded that Serbs cease attacks near one such enclave, Bihac, but fell short of threateningU.N. retaliation. The Serb attacks, the largest in the area in six months, have skirted the "safe area" within Bihac, a strategy that allows them to seize territory without provoking NATO retaliation...