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...grip-and-grin meeting, it's still a significant step. Koljevic is thought to be connected to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, so there is at least a speculative link to power there." Koljevic met with Kresimir Zubak, president of the Muslim and Croat federation that the Dayton peace accord says will govern half of Bosnia. According to a member of a delegation from the 52-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the former enemies talked "openly about common issues," such as defusing tensions in Serb-held suburbs of Sarajevo and the elections which are scheduled for next fall...
Ossorio identified himself to Slamon and with little preamble asked whether UCLA was still in accord with Health Net's guidelines. Slamon said yes. Then why, Ossorio asked, was UCLA going to transplant a Health Net subscriber named deMeurers...
Budget negotiations between President Clinton and congressional leaders recessed without an accord, amid speculation, fueled by Speaker Newt Gingrich's pessimistic assessment, that the talks may have broken down. At his news conference the President insisted a budget deal was reachable if policy differences over such key programs as Medicare and Medicaid could be put aside by Republicans and fought out later at the November elections. Members of Congress took advantage of a January recess to scurry home and sound out voters...
SARAJEVO: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke arrived in the Bosnian capital on Thursday, less than 36 hours before the first major deadline of the Dayton Peace accord, to assess the progress of the international peacekeeping mission and to help keep the heat on the warring parties to abide by the agreement he worked so hard to win. By midnight Friday, according to the treaty, all the warring parties are to have pulled their soldiers and weapons behind cease-fire lines and released all prisoners of war. Military observers in Bosnia agree that the demilitarization is proceeding on schedule...
Bowing to pressure from U.S., European and NATO authorities, Bosnian Serbs released 16 Bosnian civilians taken captive in Serb-held Sarajevo suburbs. The abductions had been a serious challenge to the Dayton peace accord, which requires that all of Sarajevo be open to civilian travel...