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...first is to send arms to the Bosnian forces. Next, she advocates the bombing of Serb heavy artillery and the supply lines running from Serbia to proxy forces in Bosnia...
Amid ruins of its own making, Serbia has a hollow victory...
...London last week for a conference on Yugoslavia, Eagleburger called for tighter sanctions against Serbia, more international monitoring of Serbia's borders and intensified relief efforts. He also pushed for the creation of a permanent negotiating mechanism in Geneva to slog through the messy details standing in the way of a Yugoslav settlement. All these things came to pass, and Eagleburger was pleased by the strong international unity demonstrated. But absent the use of U.S. military force, which he fears could lead to another Vietnam quagmire, none of these steps will guarantee a formula for changing Serb behavior soon...
...appeared to be in defiance of the London conference, where participants condemned Serbian violence and threatened tougher sanctions (though they stopped short of advocating military action). "No trade. No aid. No international recognition or role," warned British Prime Minister John Major. Acting U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said Serbia must make peace or pay "what we will ensure is an unacceptable price for aggression." The warnings brought at least lip service from the Serbs. They promised to open all prison camps and return about a fifth of the 70% of Bosnia-Herzegovina they have seized...
Unfortunately, setting up cantons might not stop bloodshed in the Balkans any more than the Munich agreement headed off World War II, which exploded a year later. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has already announced plans to resettle 140,000 Serb refugees in Kosovo, a province of Serbia. Western officials are worried that he may well clear room for them by "ethnic cleansing" of the province's majority Albanians and then attempt a conquest of independent Macedonia in the guise of protecting a Serb minority there. Reports are filtering in to London of ethnic purges carried out by both Serbs...