Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would never come." Joined by the presidents of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia at a long, red-draped table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Christopher said that the warring leaders "have agreed that four years of destruction is enough." Addressing the dignitaries gathered for the initialing of the peace accord, Christopher paid special tribute to the families of the three American diplomats killed last August outside of Sarajevo when the U.S. began its determined effort to bring peace to the Balkans. Relatives of the three were present when the Balkan presidents, put their initials on the thick stack of peace...
Despite the success of the peace talks and the elation of diplomats who had worked sixteen and eighteen hour days for the last three weeks, Christopher predicted that an "immense effort" will be required to implement the accord. That sentiment was echoed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who spearheaded the team which brought the parties to the negotiating table and who had not spoken publicly since the negotiations began on November 1. "We started fourteen weeks ago. It seemed like 14 years ago," said Holbrooke. The veteran diplomat admitted that the enmities among the parties were "still...
...will be crucial. "I wouldn't be surprised if Clinton tries to get Tudjman, Milosevic and Izetbegovic to go to the Hill to reassure Congress that there's not going to be violence. If, however, the Bosnians, for example, go to Congress and say they were dragged into this accord, it's not going to help...
...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. Today, 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." Though...
...came home to my dark and cold house and heard gunfire," Mark Bartolini, the public information officer for the International Refugee Committee in Sarajevo, told TIME Daily. "But it was random and prolonged gunfire rather than the deliberate shots you normally hear. That's how I knew that an accord had been reached." Bartolini says that some champagne was uncorked in the besieged city tonight, "but there was no jubilation, no parties. The Sarajevans have been through too much for that." Though Bartolini says thare is more optimism among the international community in Sarajevo, he says that "everybody is still...