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Saddam's taunts are aimed at eroding the coalition's resolve. But Western officials insist they are having the opposite effect. They say Saddam's gamble that Europe is too distracted by the Yugoslav quagmire and President Bush too immobilized by his tough re-election fight to risk military action is a grave miscalculation. "If Saddam does not quickly comply with U.N. demands," says a senior British diplomat, "an attack is almost certainly on. We are not going to wait long." (See related story on page...
...incidents raised the possibility of U.S. and Western involvement in the fighting, if it resumes. Four Yugoslav planes buzzed two American warships in the Adriatic. Though no shots were fired, three of the planes turned back only after American radar had locked on to them -- a preliminary step to shooting. In Sarajevo a Canadian member of the United Nations peacekeeping force exchanged fire with a Serbian sniper, who was killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon...
There are rich possibilities for more bloodshed in other parts of the country still called Yugoslavia, which now consists only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...their life- styles witless L.A. cliches: the first episode ends with the gang frolicking in the swimming pool. There's something ludicrous about seeing these fantasy Californians grapple with real-world problems like paying the rent and sexual harassment at work. Sort of like watching a discussion of the Yugoslav civil war on Studs...
Serbia may be signaling that it is ready to consider a more moderate approach. En route to Belgrade to take up the post of Prime Minister of Yugoslavia was Milan Panic, 62, an American pharmaceutical manufacturer born in Serbia. Panic (pronounced Pahn-ich), summoned by the Yugoslav government to try to improve links with the outside world, had to obtain permission from the U.S. government to break the sanctions barring all contact with Belgrade. Panic said he sees his assignment as an effort to make peace and bring an end to the U.N. sanctions. (See related story on page...