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...Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities, had met with Karadzic just the night before he made his offer public and "Karadzic didn't say anything to him even though there was communication with Carter at that point," Angelo says. "Akashi just felt insulted." Officially, U.N. officials are sticking with the NATO line and expressing skepticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDIATORS SLIGHTED | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

...their getting what they asked for. They don't have many supporters left: Western leaders are miffed by the Bosnian Serbs' rejection of a peace plan that would have given them 49 percent of Bosnia. (BTW: Serbs comprise just a third of the population of Bosnia). And Yugoslavian Serbs, usually their natural allies, have also publicly excoriated them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOSNIAN SERBS DEMAND MORE LAND | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

EVEN ANTIDEMOCRATS LIKE SERBIAN PRESIDENT Slobodan Milosevic crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing to meet a one-year residency requirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing The Odds | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...rationales for their positions, while unstated in official communiques, are not secret. Germany wants to expand its power to the East by slicing up potential rivals, and France fears an expansion of Germany's influence over Eastern Europe. The cause of the EC's hemming and hawing on the Yugoslavian question, then, is not some failure in coordination, but the natural outgrowth of deep-seated rivalries and insecurities within the Community...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Judgment at Maastricht | 12/4/1991 | See Source »

...months later, Secretary of State Baker went to Yugoslavia on the eve of civil war and gave the distinct impression to all involved that the U.S. favored the unitary Yugoslavian state, then controlled by Serbian communists. This signal too had to be withdrawn when the Serbian-controlled army set out to restore the unitary state with tanks and planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Loved Dictators | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

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