No unity against Milosevic
LORD ROBERTSON, the British secretary-general of NATO, has been warning President Slobodan Milosevic not to repeat in Montenegro, the sulky junior partner in the Yugoslav federation, the miscalculation he made in Kosovo by assuming that the West would not respond to his mischief-making with military force. But if anyone is being wrong-footed by events in the Balkans, it is Mr Milosevic's opponents, both domestic and international, who have been scrambling, in a disorganised way, to co-ordinate their tactics ahead of the snap Yugoslav elections that he has called for September 24th.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “No unity against Milosevic”
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