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Bill says "tax cuts," when he means loopholes.First we privatize air controllers. Then maybe bank regulators?Jimmy Carter thinks poor Radovan Karadzic is merely misunderstood, which is what many folk said about Hitler.Speaker Grinch is going to cut reindeer from the budget.

Some crimes horrify because of their brutality, others because of the sheer number of their victims. The alleged crimes of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader accused of orchestrating Europe's worst massacre since World War II, were a mad stew of cruelty and mass murder that made the term "ethnic cleansing" synonymous with evil. This week, after a decade-long manhunt, Serbian police finally arrested Mr. Karadzic on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. His capture, though long delayed, should send a message to tyrants everywhere: You can run, you can hide, but sooner or later you will be found and called to account for your despicable actions.

Slobodan and Radovan have this good-Serb, bad-Serb routine down pat.The state guaranteed Dr. Gallo about what the Orioles gave Sid Fernandez.Just because there's a bust of Spiro in the U.S. Senate does not prove him guilty.

PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina - This small town, with its pocket-size Orthodox church and tatty cafes, is Karadzic country: a place where indicted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has long been viewed as a native son, a savior, a saint. But even here, where the Bosnian Serb leader lived at the height of his power during his country's brutal war, there is a weariness when people talk about Karadzic - as if they love him but are almost too tired to defend him. That matters, because Pale is a place where people generally see the 1992-1995 war through an exclusively Serbian lens, one in which the Serbs are the biggest victims and not the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" against Bosnia's Muslims.

The Croatian army and rebel Krajina Serb forces began pulling back heavy weapons near ZADAR after a cease-fire agreement aimed at formally ending their 1991 war took effect in the morning.The Red Cross has suspended plans for immediate evacuation of thousands of Muslims and Croats from PRIJEDOR, scene of recent ethnic violence, after Bosian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic placed drastic limits on the number of people he would allow to go.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- He is hailed as the consummate Balkan politician, a master of the Byzantine maneuver and supreme practitioner of power politics. But President Slobodan Milosevic's complete grip on Serbia apparently does not include his own home.The problem is his wife, Mirjana, who last December agreed to write a column for the magazine Duga. Her first effort dealt with just-held elections that gave her husband a landslide victory and solidified support for his Bosnian policy.Did she wax happy or content?

Some crimes horrify because of their brutality, others because of the sheer number of their victims. The alleged crimes of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader accused of orchestrating Europe's worst massacre since World War II, were a mad stew of cruelty and mass murder that made the term "ethnic cleansing" synonymous with evil. This week, after a decade-long manhunt, Serbian police finally arrested Mr. Karadzic on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. His capture, though long delayed, should send a message to tyrants everywhere: You can run, you can hide, but sooner or later you will be found and called to account for your despicable actions.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- The wife of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic added to the speculation yesterday surrounding her husband's possible surrender to a war crimes court, saying Karadzic will "never" give himself up.Ljiljana Karadzic's defense of her husband was echoed by his closest political ally, Momcilo Krajisnik, the Bosnian Serb member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-person presidency.But reports in Belgrade suggested that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been drawn into negotiations aimed at easing Karadzic's surrender.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- The wife of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic added to the speculation yesterday surrounding her husband's possible surrender to a war crimes court, saying Karadzic will "never" give himself up.Ljiljana Karadzic's defense of her husband was echoed by his closest political ally, Momcilo Krajisnik, the Bosnian Serb member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-person presidency.But reports in Belgrade suggested that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been drawn into negotiations aimed at easing Karadzic's surrender.

PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The directions to Radovan Karadzic's house are simple: Drive north from town on the road with potholes the size of Land Rovers. Pass a dusty gas station and cross a small bridge over a muddy stream. It's another mile past wandering cows and green meadows filled with buttercups before you see a narrow dirt road on your right.Look for five or six soldiers in camouflage lounging at a small booth. Karadzic's house is just up the lane, in a village of a dozen or so homes at the edge of the woods.

Slobodan and Radovan have this good-Serb, bad-Serb routine down pat.The state guaranteed Dr. Gallo about what the Orioles gave Sid Fernandez.Just because there's a bust of Spiro in the U.S. Senate does not prove him guilty.

Bill says "tax cuts," when he means loopholes.First we privatize air controllers. Then maybe bank regulators?Jimmy Carter thinks poor Radovan Karadzic is merely misunderstood, which is what many folk said about Hitler.Speaker Grinch is going to cut reindeer from the budget.

WASHINGTON -- As in his previous high-profile personal diplomatic initiatives, Jimmy Carter has stepped into the Bosnia conflict at a time when all the players are weak, including his president.At 4 p.m. Wednesday, while the White House was scrambling to prepare and devise a way to pay for tax cuts, the former president called Bill Clinton to say that he intended to launch a peace initiative in Bosnia, provided that the Serbs kept a series of commitments they had made to him earlier in the day.Worst of all for the Clinton administration, the Republicans were coming.

The Croatian army and rebel Krajina Serb forces began pulling back heavy weapons near ZADAR after a cease-fire agreement aimed at formally ending their 1991 war took effect in the morning.The Red Cross has suspended plans for immediate evacuation of thousands of Muslims and Croats from PRIJEDOR, scene of recent ethnic violence, after Bosian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic placed drastic limits on the number of people he would allow to go.