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...away when we have to take a step forward," Jacques Poos, the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, warned last week. The E.C.'s proposal for a three-month moratorium on independence offers the same face- saving opportunity that quieted hostilities in the breakaway republic of Slovenia. The republics' leaders could use the cooling-off period to consider how the region might be stitched together again...
Despite daily charges of truce violations, the fragile cease-fire between the secessionist republic of Slovenia and the Yugoslav government held last week. Both are publicly committed to a three-month cooling-off period, yet the agreement has done little to quell tensions in independence-minded Croatia, where conflict between Croatians and Serbs threatens to erupt in warfare...
...officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting in Slovenia are raw recruits called up this year. Reflecting a conviction shared by many soldiers, Corporal Nebojsa Jankovic, 20, a Serb who saw two comrades killed by Slovenian fire, said of the army's attempted crackdown, "In my mind, it was a mistake...
Concerned parents on both sides of the conflict share the soldiers' lack of enthusiasm for a war that has already claimed 57 lives. Last week in Serbia, mothers took to the streets demanding that their sons return home. In Slovenia, Nada Mesaric, 45, whose son is garrisoned in Macedonia near the Kosovo border, said, "I don't think it's important to any of us whether Yugoslavia stays together...
...Bush hinted that he would recognize the republics, provided independence was achieved peacefully. In Europe, where public sympathy for the secessionists runs high, Germany made the sharpest U-turn. "Countries cannot be held together by tanks and force," said Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He warned Belgrade that an attack on Slovenia or Croatia could affect German economic aid to Yugoslavia, which last year totaled $550 million. Britain, France and Italy are also considering joining the Western swing toward recognition...