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...this time, however, Milosevic's calculus had changed. Since May 1992, Yugoslavia has been chafing under economic sanctions imposed by the U.N. For months Milosevic had been trying to make some deal to get those sanctions lifted. Discussions of such a deal have hinged on Milosevic's willingness and ability to make his Bosnian Serb clients negotiate a peace. Always more of an opportunist than a true nationalist, Milosevic has for some time appeared willing to sell out his brethren Serbs for the sake of unshackling himself from sanctions...
...writing the scripts for last week's two-stage Bosnia drama: both the unprecedented bombardment of the Serbs and the simultaneous push for negotiations. Despite the low public visibility the President and his senior policymakers maintained as events unfolded, it was clear--both to the parties in the former Yugoslavia and to the U.S. allies in Europe--that a qualitative change had taken place. After four years of ambivalence and only partial engagement, America was taking charge. ''Clinton has recognized that without American involvement and force, no resolution is possible." said an official at the German foreign ministry. "The President...
...first time since fighting in Yugoslavia began in 1991, a possible path to a peace settlement began to emerge. Their military position weakened by the NATO bombing and recent losses to the Croatian army, the Bosnian Serbs made what most observers viewed as a key concession when they agreed to be represented by Serbia in peace negotiations. At week's end the U.S. announced that talks were slated to be held late this week in Geneva between the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Nevertheless, the Bosnian Serbs rejected U.N. demands to end the siege of Sarajevo, leading...
...Caesar, Mark Antony reflects on the numbing cruelties of civil war, a "domestic fury" so dreadful "that mothers shall but smile when they behold/Their infants quartered.../All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction. Strife that has fed on vengeful mythologies and minor cultural differences was succumbing, among many southern Slavs, to a universality of victimhood. Around the western Balkans, sorry droves of refugees could almost have exchanged identities as they toted a few spare...
...Bonn, "and Lake and Tarnoff came here not showing a great deal of imagination." A French diplomat called the U.S. visit a "very positive element" and said, "We feel that the Contact Group should first develop a common approach and then present it to the parties in ex-Yugoslavia." It would appear that in neither case did the Americans take charge. In 1993 there was only one big bully in the Balkans--the Serbs. Now there are two, and the consequences of still another failure in leadership would be all the more serious...