Word: slobodan
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Another wave of NATO bombardment today failed to persuade Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb army commander, to withdraw about 300 tanks, mortars and other heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. The general's defiance immediately generated international rumors that a rift had emerged between Mladic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who is negotiating a peace settlement on all Serbs' behalf. But foreign affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels reports that Mladic is acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral...
...road to Sarajevo in which three key American officials and a French peacekeeper were killed, prompted personal anguish, but the U.S. peace mission pushed on. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who had been shopping the formula around the Balkans, won a cordial reception from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who stands to gain relief from the U.N. economic embargo...
...Serbs like Milic spent most of last week fleeing before the army of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Tudjman's soldiers needed just five days to conquer Krajina, the crescent-shaped region whose Croatian Serb majority seceded from Croatia in 1991 with the help and encouragement of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Tudjman's victory last week created the largest exodus of refugees since the Balkan wars began; at the same time, the offensive shook up the region's political and military balance of power, and as a result seemed to create an opportunity for peace. The White House is now attempting...
Nearly 200,000 Serb refugees streamed out of the Krajina region in Croatia after the territory was retaken from the Serbs by Croatian forces. As joyous Croats celebrated, bitter Serbs denounced Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whom they faulted for not coming to their aid. Yugoslav officials, struggling to cope with the huge influx of refugees, announced plans to send thousands of them to Kosovo, a region that is 90% ethnic Albanian and that many fear will be the next Balkan powder...
Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic may dupe the international community, but the man who started the war cannot become a peacemaker overnight. Even if Milosevic is being honest about his new intentions of becoming a peace broker in the war, internal nationalist pressures, especially from the Serbian Orthodox Church, will eventually prevent any softening of his position. And just as Milosevic cannot change overnight, neither can genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia be remedied overnight. The inhuman wounds need time to heal. The solution to the region's problems requires, first and foremost, patience...