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BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Several American injuries were reported during violent attacks today on NATO peacekeeping forces in this Serb-controlled town. The attacks were fueled in part by the belief that the Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has "sold her soul to the devil" by co-operating with the men in blue berets. And with the former president and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic waiting in the wings, this is not the best time for Plavsic to be losing her grip on power...
...offensive put 31,000 NATO peacekeepers clearly in direct opposition to Serb wartime leaders still in command of thousands of police officers as well as the Serbian economy. It split the Bosnian Serb sector into two regions: one controlled by Karadzic and the other by his official successor, President Biljana Plavsic...
...inhabitants of Bosnia, the Dayton process is fundamentally flawed and a cause for dejection. "The elections won't change anything. The parties in power will win again," says Biljana, a Serb living in Doboj. The Muslim wife of Esad, Kujundzic's victim, also sees little gain from this Saturday's exercise. "For four years we have begged for shelter and dug up other people's potatoes. We want to go home," says Asmira, 36. "If we can't, we might as well go back...