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...sanctions go about as far as foreign pressure can, short of war. They will stop all Serbian exports and all imports except for food and medicine, freeze Serbian assets held abroad and break all air links to the outside world. The key measure, though, is an embargo on oil, the lifeblood of both modern industry and mechanized armies, but it is far from certain that the tap will be turned off. Almost half of Serbia's fuel comes from Russia and China, which went along only reluctantly with the sanctions resolution. Some British diplomats are worried that oil may slip...
...almost 2 million Kosovo Albanians have so far remained relatively quiet. That is no doubt because the Milosevic regime has installed in their midst an enormous military and police apparatus and imposed a state of emergency. But below the surface, resistance has been building. In defiance of the Serbian government, the underground Albanian leadership plans to hold clandestine parliamentary elections for the phantom republic this week...
...newly independent neighbors in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia may feel differently. Bosnia's Serbs, who wish to remain part of a greater, Serbian- dominated Yugoslavia, have taken over two-thirds of the republic's territory with the indispensable aid of the federal army and free-lance gunmen from Serbia. In the process, an estimated 1,300 people have died in Bosnia, and hundreds of thousands have left their homes...
...constitution of the remapped Yugoslavia recognizes, at least for now, that its territory ends at the shared border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. Diplomats optimistically interpreted that fact as a renunciation of Belgrade's prior claims that Serbs in any of the republics had a right to belong to an expanded Serbian state...
...already in place. But now hand- wringing has begun over whether, given the human and financial costs, to put such a force in Bosnia. Some observers caution that Croatia is a poor example: however unintended, the presence of the Blue Helmets in that country has served to safeguard Serbian conquests...