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- THE WEEK, Page 20WORLDSecond Look
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- There are plans afoot for new moves into Bosnia and Macedonia
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- Is late really better than never? In Bosnia nobody knows, but
- the thinking in Washington and Western Europe seems to be
- "Let's find out." It is getting very, very late for intervention
- there. Sarajevo's 400,000 residents are reaching the end of
- their food supplies, since relief flights were suspended on Dec.
- 1. But few are keen to accept the offer of Bosnian Serb leader
- Radovan Karadzic to guarantee safe passage to all civilians
- leaving the city -- an all too facile and cynical turnabout
- after eight brutal months of Serb barrage.
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- Nonetheless, NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels
- worked out contingency plans that ranged from air enforcement
- of the U.N. ban on Serb military flights over Bosnia to sending
- troops to create safe havens for potential victims of ethnic
- cleansing. A senior State Department official believes
- enforcement of the no-fly zone to be a near certainty, perhaps
- to be followed by a lifting of the ban on weapons sales to
- Bosnians.
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- And if it really is too late? In hopes of heading off
- future conflict, the U.N. is considering dispatching 700
- peacekeepers to Macedonia. Ethnic tension there, already high,
- could explode if Slobodan Milosevic is re-elected President of
- neighboring Serbia on Dec. 20.
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