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...disintegration of Yugoslavia has already cost at least 6,000 lives, driven 650,000 people out of their homes and thwarted 14 cease-fires. No. 15 has been in effect since Jan. 3. Last week Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said, "The conditions now exist for a peaceful and democratic solution." That is thanks largely to four outsiders: Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy...
...Czechoslovakia strive more or less successfully to replace communism with Western-style democracy, in other former Soviet satellites the alternative to red rule seems to be a mystic nationalism based on blood and soil. That holds particularly true for the main antagonists in the Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, democratic principles merely temper a style...
Despite the collapse of 14 negotiated truces over the past six months, the peacemakers have not given up. U.N. special envoy and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last week put together the most detailed agreement yet and won approval from the warring Presidents, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia...
...week's end the leaders of Serbia and Croatia agreed on the outlines of yet another truce. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and federal Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic agreed to call off the offensive, while Croatian President Franjo Tudjman pledged to lift blockades around federal army bases. Both sides also pledged to discuss new political arrangements for the protection of minorities. But the news produced no immediate break in the fighting, raising fears that the atavistic struggle might be beyond diplomatic solution...
...Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's crypto-communist president, has steadily usurped federal authority in championing the resistance of Serbs in Croatia. As Croatians see it, his goal is to swallow up Serb-inhabited territory in the separatist republic. Milosevic might have met his match, though, in Franjo Tudjman, Croatia's fervently nationalist president. After the assault began, Tudjman offered to restore food and utilities to surrounded federal barracks in Croatia, but Kadijevic rejected the offer as inadequate and "cynical." Dressed in combat fatigues, Tudjman vowed to "fight and defend our homeland," and added angrily, "I think it is time for Europe...