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- THE WEEKWORLD, Page 20Lowering the Boom
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- The U.N. stiffens sanctions against Yugoslavia, but to what
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- 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.
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- 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.
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