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...crafted a cease-fire that has lasted to this day. In 1997, as President Clinton's special envoy, he stepped into the 24-year-old struggle between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus and has so far achieved no major breakthrough. Last week he gamely turned his hand to the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, the site of a festering rebellion between 1.8 million ethnic Albanians and their Serb overlords, and quickly found himself in a diplomatic theater of the absurd...
June 23, 8:30 a.m., aboard a U.S. Air Force C-20 executive jet. Holbrooke flips through confidential State Department cables and contemplates the task ahead. He has been dispatched to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels to stop shooting and start talking. As he prepares to face the Balkan furies again, Holbrooke sits quietly, looking anxious. "The goal is to prevent a war," he tells TIME, which was given exclusive access to the trip. "But it may be impossible...
DIED. KAROLJ SELES, 64, Yugoslav cartoonist who nurtured and safeguarded the phenomenal tennis talents of his daughter Monica from her early success through the 1993 stabbing that debilitated her to her dramatic 1995 comeback; of stomach cancer; in Sarasota...
Allies of Karadzic, including Belgrade attorney Kosta Cavoski, have indicated that he will shift the blame for wartime atrocities to Mladic and to Yugoslav Federal Republic president Slobodan Milosevic, who has been granted conditional immunity...
...Yugoslav federation breaks up and internecine strife erupts...