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...such "normal duties" Lugar has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, charged with crimes against humanity. Dozens of witnesses say he committed terrible acts as platoon leader of a Serbian paramilitary unit known as the Gray Wolves. Yet today Lugar is free, if not living particularly well, back home in Kragujevac, a grimy industrial city 60 miles southeast of Belgrade...
...Muslim-Croat police made their way to the city hall down quiet, deserted streets. When they got there, they may have confirmed fears the few remaining Serbs had about the transfer of power. The new bosses raised a Bosnian government flag over an administrative building, and tore a Serbian sign from the police station. Calling the transfer a "farce," Vogosca's Serb mayor said that the new police broke into and vandalized his office, smashing pictures of Serbian heroes and kicking down doors. Vogosca is only the first of Sarajevo's five Serb districts to be transferred to Muslim-Croat...
...multiethnic state. It has refrained from openly suppressing opposition parties, and it tolerates independent newspapers and radio that engage in lively and often critical public debate. Izetbegovic's party has also put some effort into cultivating relations with Croat and Serb communities, sponsoring funds for rebuilding Catholic and Serbian orthodox churches, as well as mosques...
...mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke in Rome to bring the Bosnian Serbs back to the negotiating table, but he was unable to deliver. "It may be too early to say that the peace process is derailed," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "This...
...Alija Izetbegovic and Franjo Tudjman as well. They have done the same amount of damage to the people of the former Yugoslavia as has Karadzic. Even though I personally don't like Karadzic, I wouldn't put him in the same class as Hitler. Any personal vendetta against Serbian politicians is deplorable. ILIJA TANOVIC Windsor, Ontario Via E-mail...