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...talk, the State Department has enlisted the help of Richard Holbrooke to help negotiate the removal of war-crime suspect Radovan Karadzic. Holbrooke, the negotiator who played a crucial role in the talks that led to the Dayton agreement, departed Monday for a series of talks with Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic, the same group that hashed out the Dayton peace accords. "Holbrooke might succeed where others have failed because of his special credibility after Dayton," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "He also enjoys a close relationship with Milosevic." The State Department...
Diplomacy is often a high-stakes game of chicken. This time the showdown is between the U.S. and Serb President Slobodan Milosevic over the fate of Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia's defiant Serb leader and most-wanted war criminal. His continued authority and freedom have been galling the West ever since the Dayton peace accords promised last December that he would be dumped from power and delivered to trial. Now he stands squarely in the way of Washington's rickety peace plan to hold "free and fair" elections this September in Bosnia--elections that will allow NATO forces to declare success...
When the rags-to-riches U.S. immigrant returned to his Balkan homeland in July 1992 to be Prime Minister and challenge Slobodan Milosevic's power, some cynics saw it merely as a way to protect the Yugoslav interests of his company, ICN Pharmaceuticals. Panic may have been naive--he lost a fraud-wracked presidential election against Milosevic on Dec. 20, 1992, and was ousted as P.M. nine days later--but his idealism was genuine. Today Panic has "no interest in politics," he says, preferring to act as an informal economic adviser to the region. He also still runs...
Even war has its rules. Slobodan Miljkovic, called "Lugar"--the Gamekeeper--would not have been thinking about that when, as eyewitnesses allege, he had 50 Croat and Muslim Bosnian civilians lined up against a wall and took part in shooting 16 of them, when he sliced an old man's throat with a broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands...
...alike, plead that there can never be lasting peace in the Balkans if individuals who raped and pillaged and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians are not brought to judgment. But the obstacles are formidable. Despite a recent show of cooperation from Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, the two Presidents have largely stonewalled the tribunal. Both have deeply vested interests in preventing investigations and trials that could incriminate their political apparatus or themselves. Western powers sit down and do business with them because both men are needed to make the fragile Dayton agreement work...