Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RATTLE DICK LUGAR BY bringing up nuclear throw weights or prewar Serbian history. But just broach the charisma issue and the presidential candidate is on the defensive. Pundits hint that Lugar is charismatically challenged, that his political persona is as flat as an Indiana cornfield, that he is, in short, too bland to be President. "Gee," Dick Lugar says, "I know that people say I'm far too low-key, even that"--and here a brief, sad smile--"I'm dull...
...shell into a Sarajevo market, killing 38 civilians and triggering NATO's air strikes. While the bombardment kept the Serbs preoccupied, the Croat-Muslim juggernaut was free to surge ahead, and by last Wednesday it stood within 30 miles of the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka, raising fears that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic might intervene. But Milosevic has recently banked his fortunes on posing as a broker for peace--a role he has no intention of jeopardizing by sending in troops. "The bottom line is that Milosevic wants a deal," says a Pentagon official, referring to the part...
...retreat--and the approximate share set aside for them in a proposed settlement. Why the sudden reverse after three years in which they called virtually all the shots in the war, ignored pleas for restraint and thumbed their noses at the world? What happened to the soldiers described by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in a recent Time interview as "no doubt the better fighters"? Was the Bosnian Serb army ever as good as it was assumed to be? Probably...
...MOST RICHARD HOLBROOKE EXPECTED from his round of shuttle diplomacy last week was a bit of progress on designing a new shape and government for war-ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina. Instead, when the American special envoy arrived in Belgrade, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic surprised him with a proposal to end the siege of Sarajevo in exchange for cessation of NATO's bombing campaign against Serb military installations...
...joint negotiating delegation. He claimed, in fact, to have paved the way for this weeks earlier, when Karadzic and Mladic had flown to Belgrade to meet with him immediately after the Croatia offensive. Having been encouraged early on by Milosevic in their bids to establish a satellite Serbian state, the Bosnian Serb leaders were looking to him for support as Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's troops steamrolled through Krajina and into Bosnia during the early weeks of August...