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...fiercely nationalistic leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to stop what looks to most of the world like aggression against the breakaway republics of the old federation. But moral suasion, coupled with the explicit threat of economic sanctions, has as yet achieved nothing. Instead, the warfare among Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and Slavic Muslims has given the world a lesson in the true -- and terrible -- meaning of the often loosely used term Balkanization. If the proprietors of the new world order regard this as a test case of their ability to defuse ethnic warfare anywhere, they have so far resoundingly failed...
...hopes that the proclamation of a shrunken Yugoslavia might prove a key to peace died within days. In the name of protecting the Serb minority in Bosnia, predominantly Serb army troops and local militia poured artillery shells into towns and fought pitched battles with Croats and Slavic Muslims in the capital, Sarajevo. The recent fighting in Bosnia has added at least 300 deaths to the 10,000 killed -- the bulk of them in Croatia -- since Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence last spring. The federal army has withdrawn from Slovenia, and in Croatia the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping force...
...would face "the greatest possible international pressure," a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Bonn. "We are leaving open a whole range of options in the political, diplomatic and economic fields." In Washington the State Department denounced the Serbian attacks and also condemned counterattacks by Croatian and Slavic Muslim militias as obstacles to a peaceful solution. "We're calling on everyone to please do whatever they can" to end the shooting, said State's spokeswoman, Margaret Tutwiler...
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...eliminate them, Hitler had an ultimate plan to conquer Ukraine and European Russia for colonization by racially pure Aryans. The original Slavic populations would be deported or kept as slaves, educated only enough "to understand our highway signs." In 1941 Hitler actually began to carry out that program and in going to war with the Soviet Union also put into effect his "final solution to the Jewish problem," the extermination of European Jewry. While Stalin had more people put to death than Hitler did, Bullock maintains the Nazi Holocaust is unique because "mass murder became not an instrument...