Carlos Westendorp, Bosnia’s Euro-Spanish viceroy

BOSNIA'S three main ethnic groups may have stopped killing each other, but they still balk at calling each other compatriots. So when the time came to devise a common passport, it was Carlos Westendorp, the West's man in Bosnia, who had to force a design on the stubborn nationalists. Thousands of Westendorp-approved passports were duly printed, at which point a ghastly error was discovered: the Serbo-Croat case endings were wrong. The entire print run had to be pulped.