Word: balkanize
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...capital, an armored personnel carrier carrying members of his delegation slipped off a rain-soaked road and tumbled down the mountain, claiming the lives of three men inside. Among those killed was Robert C. Frasure, who as the President's negotiator in the region had closer ties to the Balkan leaders than any Washington diplomat. The mission returned to the States, its future uncertain...
...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 documents. The agreement "certainly does not erase the stark memories of the past or guarantee that the fabric of society will be restored," said Christopher. "Still, it is a victory...
...ahead, the mediators hope, is an agreement to end the conflict between the Bosnian-Croat alliance and the people with whom they are still at war, the Bosnian Serbs. In 20-hour-a-day rounds of negotiations, under virtual house arrest, the diplomats are struggling forward. As one Balkan delegate says, "Things are getting much more intense in here." At the end of last week the delegations were still wading through a raft of U.S.-prepared documents addressing the question of how the Bosnian Serbs can be integrated into a reconstituted Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...roadblocks to peace that began surfacing over the weekend have stalled the Balkan negotiations, reports TIME's James Graff from Dayton. "They haven't decided to throw in the towel," says Graff, "but it doesn't look good. Warren Christopher hasn't decided to leave yet. He'd still like to get an agreement, but at this point doesn't know what he has to do to get one." Graff says that the Serbs apparently are making demands on issues that the other parties thought had been settled. This follows a marathon day of negotiations Sunday in which the Americans...
...negotiations over the 1895 Game were approached with the delicacy of the Balkan peace discussions. But the talks broke down in the end, and after Yale's missed invitation, Harvard refused to compete against the Elis in any sport for the rest of the year...