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There are rich possibilities for more bloodshed in other parts of the country still called Yugoslavia, which now consists only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...Serbia may be signaling that it is ready to consider a more moderate approach. En route to Belgrade to take up the post of Prime Minister of Yugoslavia was Milan Panic, 62, an American pharmaceutical manufacturer born in Serbia. Panic (pronounced Pahn-ich), summoned by the Yugoslav government to try to improve links with the outside world, had to obtain permission from the U.S. government to break the sanctions barring all contact with Belgrade. Panic said he sees his assignment as an effort to make peace and bring an end to the U.N. sanctions. (See related story on page...
Western leaders are moving steadily closer to going ahead anyway. Public revulsion at the killing shown on television and a sense of impotence in the supposed new world order are beginning to build pressure in Washington, London, Paris and Bonn to do something. Economic sanctions against Serbia promise no quick solution. Even the airlift of supplies into Sarajevo that began last week seems likely only to stave off starvation...
Yugoslavia, says a U.S. State Department official, is the horrible example of "self-determination gone mad." He and others accuse Serbia of adopting a poisonous nationalism that demands ethnic purity at home, enforced by deporting "foreigners" if necessary, and conquest of any lands -- portions ) of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example -- to which one's brethren have migrated. Once that spirit takes hold, says the official, "anything becomes justifiable in the name of your kind: expulsion, devastation, murder...
...independence of Slovenia and Croatia. The U.N. sent peacekeeping forces far too late and, by making clear that it would not allow its soldiers to become involved in any fighting, effectively signaled Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic that nobody would seriously try to stop his efforts to create a Greater Serbia...