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...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...
Earlier in the week, the Council, at U.S. insistence, had postponed yet again a resolution that would have toughened economic sanctions against Serbia and, it was hoped, would have persuaded its President, Slobodan Milosevic, to pressure his Bosnian Serb acolytes into signing on to the Vance-Owen peace plan. Washington did not want to force an anti-Serb vote that might discomfit President Boris Yeltsin, who faces Russian nationalists generally sympathetic to the Serb cause in a referendum April 25. The U.N. looked set to content itself with its early decision to assign NATO to enforce a long-declared...
...have no objection to putting Slobodan Milosevic on trial. But, as Aesop once asked, who is going to bell the cat? Who is going to march to Belgrade and arrest these people? More accurately, who is going to send American soldiers to force a Serbian surrender? Willing ends without means is child's play. Matching the two is the work of statesmen...
WITH A BROAD SMILE, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic told would-be peacemakers in Geneva last week that he had persuaded the leader of Bosnia's Serbs to accept their plan for partitioning war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was, he said, a "very important step toward peace." The mediators, U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance and European Community representative Lord Owen, indicated that they believed him. Both gave Milosevic credit for pressing the Bosnian Serb boss, Radovan Karadzic, to accept the plan...