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WHAT REMAINS OF YUGOSLAVIA PRETENDS TO BE A country, but even its own army doesn't seem to know where its borders are. Last Monday Serbia and Montenegro, the only two of the six republics not to declare independence, announced the establishment of a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The constitution of the remapped Yugoslavia recognizes, at least for now, that its territory ends at the shared border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. Diplomats optimistically interpreted that fact as a renunciation of Belgrade's prior claims that Serbs in any of the republics had a right to belong to an expanded Serbian...
...result, warnings from abroad turned tougher. The E.C. set April 29 as a deadline for Serbia to halt the fighting. If it did not, it would face "the greatest possible international pressure," a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Bonn. "We are leaving open a whole range of options in the political, diplomatic and economic fields." In Washington the State Department denounced the Serbian attacks and also condemned counterattacks by Croatian and Slavic Muslim militias as obstacles to a peaceful solution. "We're calling on everyone to please do whatever they can" to end the shooting, said State's spokeswoman...
...YUGOSLAVIA'S SPLINTERing republics are sowing more death, this time in newly independent, Muslim-dominated Bosnia-Herzegovina. In | the small town of Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will from Serbia...
...SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, that's what. The 12-member European Community and the U.S. have recognized the independence of the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The E.C. recognized Slovenia and Croatia last January, and Washington has now followed suit. And while Macedonia has declared its independence, the E.C. has not yet recognized it out of deference to Greece, which also contains a region it calls Macedonia and fears that an independent state could lay claim to some parts of Greek territory. The White House said the U.S. would coordinate its plans with the E.C. to recognize Macedonia, possibly...
Ethnic Serbs in northern Bosnia proclaimed their own state and said they intended to remain allied with Serbia, the largest republic in what was the Yugoslav federation. Two Serb members of Bosnia's seven-person presidency announced their resignations...