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THE WEEK, Page 23WORLDSeeking Wiggle Room
Yugoslav bosses look for a way out short of actually stopping
the war
The first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing
to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces
have seized more than two-thirds of the territory and are
bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade,
including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia
squirm publicly.
In Montenegro, the only former federal republic that
remains linked with Serbia and thus also subject to sanctions,
President Momir Bulatovic implied that those ties may be a
mistake. "We cannot endure months of sanctions," he said.
"Change is possible."
Serbian officials pounced on a U.N. report on the
situation in Bosnia to back their demand that sanctions be
lifted immediately. The report, issued by Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, pointed out that Croats were also
grabbing Bosnian territory. It suggested that Serb forces in
Bosnia and their commander, General Ratko Mladic, were outside
the control of the government in Belgrade. The Serbs argued that
they were therefore being unjustly blamed by the U.N.
Nonsense, replied Western diplomats in Yugoslavia. The
Serb-dominated federal army left behind 80,000 Serb troops when
it made a show of pulling out of Bosnia in May. Belgrade armed
them and dispatched Mladic to command them. If Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic wants to call them back, the diplomats say,
all he has to do is whistle.