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...nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but things will begin to hurt very quickly...
Indeed, the view from much of Europe is that America is slipping off the radar screen. This sense of a rudderless alliance, moreover, coincides with a tide of crises already crashing or brewing next door: the Yugoslav war, which many observers think will spread soon to Kosovo and Macedonia, and Boris Yeltsin's deepening emergency in Russia. Bush at first left the Balkan conflagration in Europe's hands; of late, Washington-led NATO has skirmished with the strictly European institutions on and off for the right to do nothing about the crisis. Overall, the Euro-American partnership seems so idle...
Before the vote, Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic had asked the Assembly to hold off the expulsion to give him some leverage in his power struggle with "militant nationalists" in Belgrade. Diplomats said they accepted Panic's good intentions but doubted his ability to deliver...
...capital of Pristina, a dreary city of Stalinist-era high-rises scattered amid factory smokestacks and weed-infested lots, paramilitary units from Belgrade patrol the streets and carry out frequent identity checks. Hundreds of Yugoslav tanks are lined up at the large military base on the western edge of the city, a constant reminder of Serbian power. "Albanians are treated just like blacks in South Africa," says Avdush Bajgora, a 29- year-old doctor from Pristina. "It's complete apartheid...
...more likely help, Kosovars must look instead to their ethnic brethren in Albania and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where an estimated 30% or more of the population is Albanian, and possibly to fellow Muslims in Iran, Turkey and elsewhere. That inevitably raises the threat of a wider war. Serbian forces are not expected to respect international borders if Albania gives sanctuary to Kosovar fighters. Macedonia, now led by moderates in a delicate coalition that seeks full recognition of its own independence despite bitter Greek opposition, could feel compelled to intervene on behalf of the Kosovars lest their...