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THE WEEKWORLD, Page 20Lowering the Boom
The U.N. stiffens sanctions against Yugoslavia, but to what
end?
In spite of economic sanctions imposed upon Yugoslavia on May
30, massive smuggling of gasoline keeps traffic heavy on the
streets of Belgrade. Though the economy is a shambles, the
regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has still not
been brought to its knees. And the war rages on.
Instead of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, as Arab
countries have urged, the United Nations decided to administer
a stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council
plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning
shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as
petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now
have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia
or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on
the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members
(including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union
in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping sanction
busters bound for Montenegro. The West hopes the pressure now
being applied will unseat Milosevic and take the air out of the
Serbs' war efforts in Bosnia. But it might lead Serbs and
Montenegrins to a greater sense of shared victimhood.