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Already NATO has ducked the most horrific ethnic fight on the Continent -- the one going on in the former Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared...
...nice thought. Unfortunately, it's been disproved in Yugoslavia, where the fall of communism has brought a vicious three-way war. Serbia and Croatia, both under democratically elected Presidents, intermittently fight each other while jointly dismembering democratic Bosnia. Serbia had a parliamentary election Dec. 19 in which all the parties supported Serbia's aggression -- although it has left the country a basket case. The Yugoslav mess is one reason some former hawks have become born-again doves. They have lost their interest in promoting democracy. They look at the postcommunist world and see that the most common cause...
...troop U.N. peacekeeping force there resigned his commission. Lieut. General Francis Briquemont of Belgium said, "There is a fantastic gap between all these Security Council resolutions, the will to execute those resolutions and the means available to commanders in the field." Meanwhile, Warren Zimmerman, the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia before it disintegrated, resigned from the State Department in disagreement with U.S. policy toward Bosnia...
...Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz. "We see that as a virtual impossibility. The key reason we want to be in NATO is to secure our own democracies. We need to keep down in our country the very same kind of nationalists Yeltsin's contending with, the same kind that have destroyed Yugoslavia." It is this point, repeated by more than a dozen Cabinet-level officials from East European countries at a recent security conference in Budapest, that warrants more attention in the debate over NATO expansion...
...escort carried 700 people to safety from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The evacuation effort had been planned for months but was thwarted by fighting and bureaucratic tangles. Most of the refugees were Muslims, who went on to Split, Croatia; the remaining 100 were Serbs, who went to Yugoslavia...