Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragedy of Bosnia could hardly have been summarized more chillingly, or by one who bears more responsibility for it. "I think we are on the threshold of the final solution," said Slobodan Milosevic, the President of Serbia and architect of ethnic cleansing. "The main remaining question is the question of maps...
...Vance-Owen plan. No matter that the bosses from Belgrade coaxed, wheedled, pleaded and finally threatened; the deputies rudely turned their backs on compromise. Their bellicose stance was a rebuke not only to the meddling international community but also to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who dared urge them to accept the plan...
...Bosnian Serbs reversed course again. At a meeting of their self-designated parliament at Pale, in the mountains east of Sarajevo, they refused overwhelmingly to accept the Vance-Owen plan and Karadzic's signature on it. They ignored his pleas for support, as well as those from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who had supported and financed them...
...virtually no risk" to U.S. pilots. True enough, Aspin and Powell told Clinton, but that would accomplish little if the Serbs just moved their artillery. Strategically, they advised, even a far-ranging bombing campaign in Bosnia might not make much of a dent in the thinking of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, deemed the ogre behind the war. "The pain has to extend to Belgrade to have much effect," said a military planner, a step Clinton is not now inclined to take...
Nonetheless, the banker's deals have helped prop up Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. When heating-oil supplies fell dangerously low last October, the banker loaned Belgrade $2.5 million to bolster the city's depleted reserves before winter. He now wants the loan repaid directly to Jugoskandik depositors...