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...said, have been grilling Karadzic's former associates. German and French patrols tour the rutted back roads around Foca and other towns. A U.N. source told TIME that British and French commando units began training in Bosnia in mid-May. Following Robertson's visit, a pro-Serb-Montenegrin newspaper claimed that British commandos had been killed in a snatch attempt. NATO officials went through the roof. "Absolutely twisted," said a senior British officer, denying the report as utter fabrication. But when NATO promptly launched an apparently routine 1,200-man exercise in the part of eastern Bosnia where Karadzic...
...Yugoslavia's problems. The governing coalition is in the throes of collapse: last week Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia walked out of the Serbian and federal parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy. A recent World Bank report found that owing...
...YUGOSLAVIA A Legal Landmark The Yugoslav Cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. Western nations have pressured Belgrade to cooperate with the court as a condition of receiving much-needed aid. Several Montenegrin ministers voiced opposition to the measure, boycotted the vote and offered to resign from the coalition government...
...West had originally supported Montenegrin independence as a way of weakening Slobodan Milosevic, but now that Milosevic has gone it has little enthusiasm for the creation of new borders in the Balkans...
...warning that they?d only return when a campaign to strip appointees of the old regime of their positions in the bureaucracy is halted. And that could be a serious problem for Kostunica, who lacks the parliamentary majority necessary to form a government unless he can persuade Milosevic?s Montenegrin allies to switch sides...