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...Systematic executions of civilians, mass rapes and concentration camps--atrocities that the continent had hoped it had left behind forever--belied the west's hopes for a brighter future after the Cold War. This optimism may now have a new lease in the wake of the Bosnian peace accord, provided that the signatories and their allies in peace can preserve the tenuous agreement ending this four-year conflict...
...peace represents a compromise hammered out in marathon negotiations in Dayton, Ohio, between the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, under the auspices of Secretary of State Warren Christopher and his chief negotiator, Assistant Secretary Richard C. Holbrooke. While the accord does not represent a victory for justice, it offers far more hope to the peoples of Bosnia than the continuation of a war whose only certainty would be more death. The accord preserves a unified Bosnia within internationally recognized borders, even while it vests substantial political authority in the two republics that divide the country, the Muslim-Croat Federation...
...council should accord direct popular elections greater importance. These elections could make a much larger component of the student body heard through its votes. It could also add new legitimacy to the council in the eyes of students. The student body can make an impact on the highest levels of the council directly and perhaps feel that the the council is more of its own voice to the administration. The the council's image can only improve with popular elections...
...Dayton, Ohio, the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialed a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war in Bosnia that has killed untold thousands; a formal signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in Paris in December. Bosnian Serb leaders, who at first vehemently opposed the accord, relented after arm twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation will also administer most of the long-besieged...
TIME's Alexandra Niksic reports that the Bosnian Serb government issued a statement Thursday supporting the Dayton peace accord. "They pledged to help implement the agreement and have called for the establishment of 'local headquarters' in each town to oversee the implementation," says Niksic. The leaders of the Serb neighborhoods of Sarajevo and Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic have also been quiet over the last two days, a further sign, Niksic says, that "they may be getting used to the agreement." Meanwhile, General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander who disappeared from public view after threatening violence two weeks...