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THE WEEK, Page 20WORLDSecond Look
There are plans afoot for new moves into Bosnia and Macedonia
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.
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.
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.