Word: yugoslavia
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...Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...
Protesters were critical of Boutros-Ghali's policies during the three-year-old ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. They charged that the U.N. has mediated the conflict rather than moving to punish Serbian aggressors as they attacked Bosnian cities...
...after Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stunned the world by making concessions to reduce hostilities mainly towards United Nations troops, reports from the former Yugoslavia suggest that his forces aren't completely living up to their leader's promise. If Karadzic keeps his word, former president Jimmy Carter -- yesterday summoned by Karadzic to mediate the conflict -- is certain to be on his way to Bosnia as early as this weekend. But today aid workers were detained by the Serbs, a British helicopter on a U.N. transport mission was fired on and Bihac was again attacked. As a result, the fate...
...abrupt about-face, President Clinton offered to send 15,000 American soldiers to help in the withdrawal of the 24,000 U.N.peacekeepers in Bosnia. It appears to be another sign that the major international players are giving up on the embattled former Yugoslavia. Just yesterday, France called for the United Nations and NATO to draw up an exit plan. However,TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James Graffsays this new stance of the West to pull away from this bloody conflict is simply posturing. Unable to get the Serbs to accept their peace plan, the West is now "putting pressure...
Last week's actions were a particularly galling demonstration of the failure by outsiders to resolve the 31-month-old war in the former Yugoslavia. At cross-purposes among themselves, the Western allies have been unable to muster measures capable of making a difference. They remain unwilling to use sufficient force to challenge Serb domination, and the Serbs and the Bosnians still refuse to agree on any settlement negotiated by mediators. The Serb reaction last week to U.N. scolding and NATO's minor bombing was almost contemptuous. In a telephone call to U.N. commander Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose...