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Given the horrors visited upon Bosnia-Herzegovina, it is difficult to believe that the Yugoslav conflict could get much worse. But that is exactly what Western officials fear is likely to occur when Belgrade turns its attention to Kosovo, the predominantly Albanian province that is a disputed part of southern Serbia. A U.S. analyst says Serbian "ethnic cleansing" there is "inevitable"; a senior Administration official predicts the spark that ignites a bloody Kosovo war could come in "the next two or three months...
While at Kissinger Associates, Eagleburger served on the board of the Yugoslav-owned LBS Bank, which was convicted of money laundering in 1988. About one-quarter of its business came from Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch was instrumental in diverting U.S. agricultural loans to arms purchases by Saddam Hussein. Eagleburger has never been accused of any wrongdoing or even any knowledge of the banks' illegal practices, but Congressman Henry Gonzalez continues to pursue the theory that high officials in the Bush Administration have tried to cover up these activities. In addition, critics charge that Eagleburger's former financial...
...becoming Deputy Secretary in the Bush Administration in 1989, he warned that the end of the cold war could unleash ethnic hatreds in Europe, especially in Yugoslavia. He was criticized for having cold war nostalgia, but his fears have been justified. The U.S. mostly kept out of the mounting Yugoslav crisis until Baker visited Belgrade in June 1991, when the country was on the brink of dissolution. Baker and Eagleburger agreed that the federal government should be bolstered as the only force able to manage an orderly transition into freer statelets. But that government, which became a hollow creature...
...week for a conference on Yugoslavia, Eagleburger called for tighter sanctions against Serbia, more international monitoring of Serbia's borders and intensified relief efforts. He also pushed for the creation of a permanent negotiating mechanism in Geneva to slog through the messy details standing in the way of a Yugoslav settlement. All these things came to pass, and Eagleburger was pleased by the strong international unity demonstrated. But absent the use of U.S. military force, which he fears could lead to another Vietnam quagmire, none of these steps will guarantee a formula for changing Serb behavior soon, and he knows...
...should the Bosnian Serbs be seen as the moral equivalents of their fathers and grandfathers, who tied down 30 Axis divisions a half-century ago. That analogy -- another of the cliches that help rationalize Western dithering -- could hardly be more misleading. It disgraces the heroism and patriotism of the Yugoslav partisans in World War II. It exaggerates the number and prowess of the Serb forces in Bosnia today, as well as their local support. For them patria is a Greater Serbia in which Croats, Albanians, Hungarians, Macedonians and Slavic Muslims are subject to second-class citizenship, if not "ethnic cleansing...