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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...
Military. The peace accord will include complex rules to be enforced by an Implementation Force (I-FOR) of 60,000 NATO troops, some of whom will begin arriving in Bosnia within days of an agreement. I-FOR will be instructed to separate the warring armies in Bosnia along 4-km-wide cease-fire zones. Simultaneously, warring parties will begin to reveal to I-FOR the location of all minefields and booby traps, vacate territory and withdraw their heavy weapons to cantonment areas. Each side will furnish maps depicting the positions of all fortifications, ammunition dumps, command headquarters, communications networks, antiaircraft...
...interview, Karadzic went so far as to say he would go to Paris for the formal signing of the peace accord, a comment which prompted this rejoinder from assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke: "If they set foot in Paris, or for that matter in any European or American country, they will be arrested...
Though the Clinton Administration is happy about the Bosnian Serbs signing on to the Balkan peace accord, TIME's Doug Waller reports that the Pentagon is concerned about the long term ability of Milosevic or Karadzic to maintain the peace. "Milosevic can deliver the votes from the senior leaders, but the question is whether they can deliver all the troops," says Waller. "There are a lot of Bosnian Serb soldiers under a very loose command structure. There are freelancers and plenty of just plain armed thugs. And that's a worry to the Pentagon." The other worry, Waller reports...
...House has already passed two non-binding resolutions objecting to the President's plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia to help enforce the peace. Clinton began his own lobbying effort last week with a long letter to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In announcing the accord, the President argued that the American troop commitment was "essential." "Without us," he said, "the hard-won peace would be lost, the war would resume, the slaughter of innocents would begin again, and the conflict that already has claimed so many people could spread like poison throughout the entire region...