Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reward to the Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian government that keeps it outgunned 10 to 1 by Serb and Croat forces, and bombing Serbian artillery that is pounding Muslim towns filled with refugees. But he did nothing to sell this plan to the Congress or the public -- he did not even publicly admit adopting it until after it was rejected -- and he dispatched Christopher with orders to "consult" the Europeans rather than securing an agreement with...
MONTEZUMA! TRIPOLI! MACEDONIA! Macedonia? Yes, the former Yugoslav republic, unthreatened and at peace with its neighbors, may nonetheless be sent U.S. troops, thus saving it from a hypothetical Serbian aggression and allowing Bill Clinton to draw a line in the quicksand. Even the Macedonians are laughing. "Why here?" Macedonian Defense Minister Vlade Popovski told reporters. Because "we want to try to confine the conflict ((in Bosnia)) so it doesn't spread to other countries," the President said last week, ignoring the fact that Macedonia hasn't requested U.S. assistance...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...
...Bosnian Serbs' refusal to follow his instructions. After the vote in Pale, Milosevic stalked out, flew back to Belgrade and announced that he was cutting off all Serbia's assistance to them except for food and medicine. But many Western military experts contend that Milosevic cannot really seal the Serbian border and that Bosnian Serbs have stockpiled at least two years' worth of war materiel and food...
...Clinton prepares to take on Serbian forces in Bosnia, the prospect of stumbling into a quagmire looms large for a President who was elected to cure domestic ills...