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Bitterness over the war and its conclusion spells finis for the career of Karadzic and possibly that of Bosnia's military commander, General Ratko Mladic. So does the Dayton peace agreement negotiated in the U.S. last year. It bars both of them from political office because they have been indicted as war criminals by a special tribunal in the Hague. Karadzic's slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been...
...feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that was much more favorable for them but was rejected by Karadzic in 1993. "We distance ourselves daily from our political leadership," said Rajko Koprivica, head of the Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca...
Present barriers to the spread of markets include discord in Bosnia and the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the recent Mexican economic crisis, unstable democracies in central and eastern Europe and even the missing Vietnam prisoners of war. Peace promotes prosperity; democracy promises dollars. That is why we have a foreign policy based upon the spread of "universal" values of free societies and free markets. That, Christopher says, is what will lead the world into "a second American century...
Christopher cited the U.S. brokered peace processes in Bosnia and the Middle Fast as two of the most significant achievements of the Clinton administration. He also described the importance of U.S. involvement in Haiti, Mexico and North Korea...
...heat on the warring parties to abide by the agreement he worked so hard to win. By midnight Friday, according to the treaty, all the warring parties are to have pulled their soldiers and weapons behind cease-fire lines and released all prisoners of war. Military observers in Bosnia agree that the demilitarization is proceeding on schedule. But there have been significant problems with the POW exchange. Bosnian Muslims are refusing to release prisoners until the Serbs give an accounting of more than 20,000 people, mostly civilians, who are missing. Most are presumed dead. Holbrooke, who has announced...