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...Croats, the Bosnian Croats and the Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are allied; and those of the Bosnian Serbs, the Croatian Serbs and some renegade Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are also allied. If the Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia begin to lose battles and territory, the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, may be tempted to send in yet another army--his own, the powerful remainder of former Yugoslav forces...
...Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal today indicted General Mladic, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and 21 other Serb officials for genocide and crimes against humanity. Despite the indictments, the tribunal is unlikely to put the suspects on trial, since Serbs in Serbia and Bosnia refuse to hand over the suspects. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says the proceedings will mean little until the military conflict is over -- and that Muslim names are sure to be on the list...
...specifics discussed by the two men in 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...
Milosevic insists that the U.S., along with Serbia, oversee the Balkan peace process, a reflection of his conviction that the Europeans either lack the leadership clout or have too many conflicting interests in the former Yugoslavia to impose a settlement, and that the U.N. is too weak to do so. Can he deliver on his part of any bargain? Possibly, but he will need time to bring the Bosnian Serbs into line and convince Serbs in general that he is not selling out their cause. "Like it or not, there's nothing else out there," says an insider in Belgrade...
...says. The allies most probably would employ a "leapfrogging" withdrawal strategy, in which highly mobile nato units would hop from peak to peak, guarding the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers winding along roads in the valleys below. They will head west for Adriatic ports or east to Belgrade, assuming Serbia approves. While the allies want to bring tanks and other vehicles with them, heavy fire could compel them to destroy the weapons in place...