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...proposal fell on deaf ears in Washington, in part because it seemed to be nothing new, in part because its requirement for lifting sanctions up front seemed to require blind faith. "We need an insurance policy in case Milosevic cannot control the Bosnian Serbs," says a senior Administration official. "Milosevic, for his part, is scared to death of what he considers the feckless American political process. He says, 'What happens some day when [what he calls] the German-Muslim lobby on Capitol Hill says let's reimpose sanctions?' Milosevic is dug in on reimposition, and so are we." Milosevic wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MESSAGE FROM SERBIA | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

...history, Milosevic is clearly a dicey partner. A communist apparatchik under Tito whose parents both committed suicide, he rose to significance in the party as head of the gas monopoly and the largest state bank. He made his political mark in 1987 with a fiery speech to the Serb minority in the province of Kosovo. Many consider that speech the beginning of his rise to power, as well as of the Serbs' nationalist passion and the wars that were inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MESSAGE FROM SERBIA | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

TIME: How do you get there? You clearly had enough influence on [Bosnian Serb leader Radovan] Karadzic to get him to free the hostages but not enough to get him to accept the Contact Group plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic: I AM JUST AN ORDINARY MAN | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

Milosevic: When we first heard via the foreign press that there were some detention camps and rapes, our first reaction was, "What about that?" The [Bosnian Serb] leadership explained, "It is absolutely not the truth, absolutely not." That was what was explained to us, and we then had a very deep confidence in what they were explaining. And I believed that just because of habit. One detail reported in the press: a Muslim girl who was pregnant by rape got shelter in a hospital in Switzerland. An abortion was not possible, and when the child was born, it happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic: I AM JUST AN ORDINARY MAN | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

TIME: The cia, not a particular lover of radical Muslims worldwide, has reported that 90% of the atrocities committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina were perpetrated by the ethnic Serb side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic: I AM JUST AN ORDINARY MAN | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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