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Despite the collapse of 14 negotiated truces over the past six months, the peacemakers have not given up. U.N. special envoy and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last week put together the most detailed agreement yet and won approval from the warring Presidents, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia...
Yugoslavia is a perfect example of the conflicts within the Community. Ever since the civil war began, Germany has been defending Slovenia and Croatia's "right to self-determination" against Serbia. France, meanwhile, has actively defended maintaining Yugoslavia as a nation...
Meanwhile, one well-intentioned emissary after another has tried to mediate. Twelve cease-fires have come and gone. At the end of last week, there was an attempt at No. 13. Governments across Europe have condemned Belgrade for trying to carve Greater Serbia out of the flanks of neighboring republics, and for systematically destroying the civilian centers and cultural monuments of other nationalities. The European Community has announced economic sanctions against Yugoslavia, aimed primarily at Serbia...
...week's end the leaders of Serbia and Croatia agreed on the outlines of yet another truce. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and federal Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic agreed to call off the offensive, while Croatian President Franjo Tudjman pledged to lift blockades around federal army bases. Both sides also pledged to discuss new political arrangements for the protection of minorities. But the news produced no immediate break in the fighting, raising fears that the atavistic struggle might be beyond diplomatic solution...
...communist resistance leader Josip Broz Tito. Ancient enemies, Croatians and Serbs had dangerous scores to settle. One-eighth of Croatia's 4.75 million people are Serbs, and super-Serb Milosevic offered them a cause. Serbian guerrillas have seized perhaps one-third of Croatia -- mostly in the lowland east neighboring Serbia and in the boomerang-shaped republic's coastal south. The heavily Serb-officered federal military has aided and probably armed them right along, but it avoided large-scale attacks until last week...