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Stephanopoulos expressed dismay at the break-up of Yugoslavia, a Balkan state, but emphasized that Greece does not want to become involved in the Bosnian conflict...
...Serbs fled the Muslim-Croat advance in the northwest. Meanwhile, Bosnian Serbs responded with the forced expulsions of an estimated 9,000 Muslims and Croats. "In the final days before the cease-fire Serbs unleashed an ethnic cleansing campaign in the northwest border areas that is shocking even by Balkan standards," reports Edward Barnes. "Those who survived the week said Serb police and army units systematically broke into virtually all the Croat and Muslim homes in a wide swath from Sanski Most to Banja Luka. Most people were given ten minutes to leave their homes in what soldiers told them...
...lucrative career as an investment banker, beckoned anew. Then in July the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and galvanized President Clinton into belated action. His departure plans suddenly on hold, Holbrooke took charge of the Administration's negotiations on Bosnia. Plunging zestfully into the Balkan thicket, he emerged last week with the dramatic Serb promise to lift the siege of Sarajevo in exchange for a NATO bombing halt...
...Banja Luka after meeting stiff resistance. Wednesday, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic apparently sent 1,000 paramilitary troops under Zeljko Raznatovic, or "Arkan," to reinforce the city. The United States considers Arkan a possible war criminal, and says he's responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav communist government. He operates out of an ice cream shop...
Foreign ministers of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia have agreed to meet next week for peace talks in Geneva. Earlier, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke said in Belgrade that all sides in the Balkan conflict had agreed to a divide Bosnia in half, with 51 percent going to the Muslim government and 49 percent to the Serbs. "What they haven't agreed to is who gets the 51 and who gets the 49," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. "There are three or four contentious areas that could cause problems in negotations." One of these, Waller says, is the isolated...