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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...
...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...