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...report by the U.N. identified no fewer than 187 suspected mass-grave sites in the former Yugoslavia, most of them in Bosnia. Thirteen supposedly had "500 bodies or more," and some as many as 5,000. The report came out a year before the fall of Srebrenica to Serb forces last July, following which up to 8,000 Muslim men, women and children vanished--either taken captive by the Serbs, killed on sight by them, or gone missing from an enormous, frequently attacked column of military-age men fleeing across Serb territory. Just how difficult it remains to investigate alleged...
Christopher spoke in detail about the accomplishments he has made in sixteen shuttles to the Middle East, in fostering stability in the fledgling republics of South Africa and Haiti and, more recently, in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia...
This year an "important goal" of the U.S. is to help nations in not only the peace process itself, but the aftermath as well, he said. The U.S. will "help the War Crime Tribunals establish accountability in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for two of the greatest tragedies of this decade," he said...
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic finally got the carrot that brought him to the negotiating table in Dayton when President Bill Clinton officially suspended economic and military sanctions against Yugoslavia on Thursday, ending a three-year boycott of the country. Lifting of sanctions that had crippled his county had been a crucial issue for Milosevic, who in effect promised to deliver the Bosnian Serbs in return for a lifting of sanctions. Key to his decision, Clinton said, were assurances that the U.S. would be able to monitor Serb compliance with the Dayton accords: "Before agreeing to sanctions suspension," Clinton said...
...than two years after being stabbed by a lunatic Steffi Graf fan. But she won her first tournament test, then took Graf to three sets in the final of the U.S. Open before losing. At 21, her game was still intact, and so was her Valley-Girl-out-of-Yugoslavia charm...