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...that day, after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic had affixed their signatures to the document under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee Palace, Chirac and Clinton huddled alone in Chirac's second-floor office. The crux of their discussion that evening was what to do about Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, General Ratko Mladic. A senior French official who had recently returned from Bosnia had convinced Chirac that Mladic and Karadzic still controlled the situation on the ground and could derail the accords at any time...
June 23, 8:30 a.m., aboard a U.S. Air Force C-20 executive jet. Holbrooke flips through confidential State Department cables and contemplates the task ahead. He has been dispatched to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels to stop shooting and start talking. As he prepares to face the Balkan furies again, Holbrooke sits quietly, looking anxious. "The goal is to prevent a war," he tells TIME, which was given exclusive access to the trip. "But it may be impossible...
BELGRADE: Richard Holbrooke wasn't carrying a big enough stick. That's why he came back empty-handed from Kosovo this week: Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president, is emboldened by NATO's hesitance to conduct air strikes. "Holbrooke's mission failed because Milosevic didn't feel enough pressure," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "NATO's political will is visibly weakening. Greece and Macedonia have come out against military action, and France is insisting on taking the matter before the U.N. That, together with Russia's support, has taken the heat off Milosevic...
BELGRADE: Will President Slobodan Milosevic remember that it was Richard Holbrooke who authored the 1995 NATO bombing raids that forced the Serbs to negotiate a peace accord in Bosnia? NATO certainly hopes so. The Serb leader has largely ignored the Western ultimatum to end his offensive in Kosovo, and Holbrooke flies in to Belgrade today to warn of the consequences. "Right now Milosevic, and just about everyone else, believes that NATO lacks the political will to carry out air strikes," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi...
BELGRADE: Unconvinced by President Slobodan Milosevic's promises of compromise, NATO continues to plan for military intervention in Kosovo. "Not only has Milosevic failed to withdraw his forces, he's also offered no significant concessions on the political status of Kosovo," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "Until he does, there will be a war there...