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- May 03, 1993: New Foes in Bosnia: U.S. Mulls...
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993: New Foes in Bosnia: U.S. Mulls...
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- THE WEEK, Page 21
- WORLD
- New Foes in Bosnia; U.S. Mulls Next Move
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- <p>Now Croats and Muslims wage war; end to arms embargo may be
- sought
- </p>
- <p> Of all the things Bosnia needed, a second theater of war was
- perhaps the last. But in central Bosnia, Croats and Muslims
- began fighting along what was supposed to be the boundary line
- between two provinces under the moribund Vance-Owen peace plan.
- Croats subjected Muslims to ethnic cleansing, systematic rape
- and cold-blooded murder, just as the Serbs to the north and
- east; there were reports of Muslim atrocities as well. However,
- late Saturday the two sides signed an agreement in Zagreb.
- </p>
- <p> In the main theater, quiet, of a sort, came to the
- Serb-besieged town of Srebrenica under a United Nations-arranged
- truce. Still, pressure mounted in the U.S. for intervention: a
- dozen Balkan desk officers in the State Department urged air
- strikes, unilateral if necessary, to protect besieged cities.
- President Clinton at his news conference ruled nothing out but
- again disavowed any unilateral action. The most the
- Administration is likely to do soon is to press for a lifting
- of the embargo against arms shipments to Bosnia. Supplying
- Bosnia with heavy weapons--or letting others do it--is the
- step least likely to drag U.S. forces into the Balkan charnel
- house. But that might well escalate the violence, and the
- killing, without necessarily changing the outcome.
- </p>
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