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...year of vicious ethnic bloodletting has ensued. Now most of the world has decided that the prime cause of the fighting is the nationalist fervor of Serbia. Yes, the war is a more complicated eruption of ancient religious, ethnic and territorial hatreds, but it is Serbia's determination to bite off parts of the other republics peopled by Serbs that keeps the war going. And the U.S., the 12-nation European Community, the 52-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.) and the United Nations have let it roll on unchecked while dithering helplessly about what, if anything...
...call it quits. Even now the odds are that the sanctions finally imposed last week by the U.S., the European Community and the U.N. Security Council will not stop the bloodshed before Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic achieves, by dint of arms, his apparent aim of forging a Greater Serbia...
...prepared to go to war against him. Military intervention, most believe, would be likely to land outside powers in a Vietnam-style quagmire and cost them heavy casualties. There may be universal outrage at the human carnage, but unlike Iraq's grab for oil-rich Kuwait, Serbia's depredations against Croatia and Bosnia do not threaten the strategic interests of the U.S. or European neighbors enough to justify the risks of sending in troops...
...medicine, freeze Serbian assets held abroad and break all air links to the outside world. The key measure, though, is an embargo on oil, the lifeblood of both modern industry and mechanized armies, but it is far from certain that the tap will be turned off. Almost half of Serbia's fuel comes from Russia and China, which went along only reluctantly with the sanctions resolution. Some British diplomats are worried that oil may slip into Serbia from Romania, or from the Middle East via Greece, which has important trade routes through Serbia...
...Muslim towns along Bosnia's eastern borders with Serbia and Montenegro, Serbian guerrillas have been waging what amounts to an "ethnic cleansing" campaign since early April. Last week the village of Turalici took its turn. "They encircled the place and cut off communications," says Nijaz Rustemovic, 36, a Muslim engineer who lives in nearby Kladanj. "They went door to door and expelled the people who hadn't already fled. Then they spilled oil all around and lit the village on fire." Other cleansings have reportedly included executions of scores of people. In Croatia, Serbian irregulars continue to expel Croats from...