Mountain Bluffs

While the Serbs fine-tune their siege of Sarajevo, NATO's attack squadrons remain on the ground

Will the Serbian conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina end with a bang or a whimper -- the crash of bombs or the fade-out of NATO's threat to attack? The answer depends on a dozen conflicting motives, but most of all on the Serbs. Once again the confident Bosnian Serbs are playing the U.N. and NATO like stringed instruments. The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, last week eased the strangulation of Sarajevo a notch, calculating how much would be just enough to make the U.S. and its allies hold fire.

The cross fire of threats, bluffs...

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