Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the rags-to-riches U.S. immigrant returned to his Balkan homeland in July 1992 to be Prime Minister and challenge Slobodan Milosevic's power, some cynics saw it merely as a way to protect the Yugoslav interests of his company, ICN Pharmaceuticals. Panic may have been naive--he lost a fraud-wracked presidential election against Milosevic on Dec. 20, 1992, and was ousted as P.M. nine days later--but his idealism was genuine. Today Panic has "no interest in politics," he says, preferring to act as an informal economic adviser to the region. He also still runs...
Even war has its rules. Slobodan Miljkovic, called "Lugar"--the Gamekeeper--would not have been thinking about that when, as eyewitnesses allege, he had 50 Croat and Muslim Bosnian civilians lined up against a wall and took part in shooting 16 of them, when he sliced an old man's throat with a broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands...
...alike, plead that there can never be lasting peace in the Balkans if individuals who raped and pillaged and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians are not brought to judgment. But the obstacles are formidable. Despite a recent show of cooperation from Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, the two Presidents have largely stonewalled the tribunal. Both have deeply vested interests in preventing investigations and trials that could incriminate their political apparatus or themselves. Western powers sit down and do business with them because both men are needed to make the fragile Dayton agreement work...
...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 type...
...being held by the Bosnian Muslims pending their possible indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal. In a rare press conference, Serb Lt. General Milan Gvero accused the Muslims of "jeopardizing peace," and accused NATO of pro-Muslim bias, "supporting the option of war". Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, one of the area's chief power brokers, backs the Bosnian decision. If his support for the peace plan is wavering, it could collapse. According to Time's Mark Thompson: "The Serbs and Muslims are backing away from the peace accord, and the situation is looking increasingly dire. The opposing sides...