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Call me selfish but I much prefer belated knowledge or wrongdoing. If I had seen the videotape of the Serbian capture of the "safe haven" of Srebrenica, I might have been compelled to fly over there and take up arms. But as it is, regret is the best I can muster from reading yesterday's news...
...real time and not in the reprints of yesterday's news. Because while the print media describes the war as drawing to an end, the curtain has not closed. The situation is extremely malleable, and more creativity might be expended than is necessary to maintain the current momentum of Serbian victories...
Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic may dupe the international community, but the man who started the war cannot become a peacemaker overnight. Even if Milosevic is being honest about his new intentions of becoming a peace broker in the war, internal nationalist pressures, especially from the Serbian Orthodox Church, will eventually prevent any softening of his position. And just as Milosevic cannot change overnight, neither can genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia be remedied overnight. The inhuman wounds need time to heal. The solution to the region's problems requires, first and foremost, patience...
...secured the two-thirds needed to override a promised presidential veto if an identical measure passes the House, possibly by Thursday, by a similar margin. Whatever the outcome, TIME's Marguerite Michaels says, the drama is being played out for domestic consumption, and will do little to slow the Serbian drive. "Dole is running for President, and he doesn't want to be the guy who sends 25,000 Americans troops in there either," Michaels says. "From the beginning of the war, the only people who have been in control here are the only people who know what they...
Bosnian Serb troopstoday marched into Zepa, taking undisputed control of their second U.N. "safe area" in as many weeks. U.N. sources tell TIME's Massimo Calabresi, in Sarajevo, that the mountain enclave is now completely free of Muslim forces: "One witness saw (Serbian Gen.) Ratko Mladic walking around the town with impunity," he says. The fates of thousands of civilians remain uncertain: the Bosnian government, fearing a reprise of reported rapes and murder after the fall of nearby Srebrenica last week, are negotiating for the release of women, children and elderly people. (Some reports said hundreds of Zepa's residents...