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...stories about the Serbs to win sympathy and support. But the Serb militiamen appear to be the worst offenders. "It is in the Serbian interest to terrorize civilians," says Andreas Khol, an Austrian politician ) who frequently visits Yugoslavia. "It is part and parcel of the plan for a Greater Serbia." Detention camps are just a way station before permanent expulsion...
...which explains the gyrations in Washington last week. One day a senior State Department official testified that economic sanctions against Serbia were working fine; two days later, after Bill Clinton said Bush should "do whatever it takes to stop the slaughter of civilians," the President was driven to announce a flurry of new measures -- full diplomatic recognition of Slovenia and Bosnia, international monitoring of Balkan borders and a call for a U.N. resolution authorizing force to deliver humanitarian aid -- but hardly enough to frighten away Milosevic and his henchmen...
...whole has done no better. As Serbia's federal army and Serb irregulars ravage the recently independent states of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, both now full members of the U.N. the United Nations Secretary General and Security Council have responded with nothing but meaningless proclamations. The sparse U.N. forces in the war zone have been a laughing-stock, closing down its operations whenever mortar rounds fall too near and suffering the injury of their own soldiers without a peep...
...splintering republics to an end, or a clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill would have acted sooner on humanitarian relief...
...already control most of Bosnia have been taking over more of what had been - left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde...