Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sarajevo market, killing 38 civilians and triggering NATO's air strikes. While the bombardment kept the Serbs preoccupied, the Croat-Muslim juggernaut was free to surge ahead, and by last Wednesday it stood within 30 miles of the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka, raising fears that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic might intervene. But Milosevic has recently banked his fortunes on posing as a broker for peace--a role he has no intention of jeopardizing by sending in troops. "The bottom line is that Milosevic wants a deal," says a Pentagon official, referring to the part of the peace agreement that...
...approximate share set aside for them in a proposed settlement. Why the sudden reverse after three years in which they called virtually all the shots in the war, ignored pleas for restraint and thumbed their noses at the world? What happened to the soldiers described by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in a recent Time interview as "no doubt the better fighters"? Was the Bosnian Serb army ever as good as it was assumed to be? Probably...
...MOST RICHARD HOLBROOKE EXPECTED from his round of shuttle diplomacy last week was a bit of progress on designing a new shape and government for war-ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina. Instead, when the American special envoy arrived in Belgrade, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic surprised him with a proposal to end the siege of Sarajevo in exchange for cessation of NATO's bombing campaign against Serb military installations...
Croatian forces are withdrawing from around the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka after meeting stiff resistance. Wednesday, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic apparently sent 1,000 paramilitary troops under Zeljko Raznatovic, or "Arkan," to reinforce the city. The United States considers Arkan a possible war criminal, and says he's responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav...
Talbott then placed a call to Holbrooke, who had been dispatched to the Balkans on Aug. 14 to promote a new peace initiative the Americans were pursuing. Hol brooke was in Paris preparing to embark for Belgrade to meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Talking on their secure line, Talbott and Holbrooke concluded that the U.S.plan would have no credibility if Washington stood by and allowed the shelling to go unpunished. Talbott then telephoned the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo requesting confirmation that the mortar attack had come from the Bosnian Serbs. By 1 p.m. Washington time the embassy had reported...