Word: bosnian
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Secretary of State Warren Christopher was unable to push the sides in the Bosnian conflict to an agreement at a crucial stage in the two-week-old negotiations. Christopher had traveled to Dayton Tuesday morning hoping to force resolution on crucial questions of territorial control in the former Yugolavia, particularly concerning Sarajevo. "Our negotiating team is certainly willing to work with these parties for the next few days or perhaps into next week," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. But he ruled out a "partial" or "barebones" accord as unacceptable and said that "they can't go home until they...
...point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic that his failure to do anything about ongoing atrocities by his proxies, the Bosnian Serbs, was unacceptable...
...INFURIATED TO READ IN YOUR report "Strange Route to Peace" [THE BALKANS, Oct. 23] that Bosnian Muslims "doubtless treated the Serbs much as the Serbs treated the Muslims.'' If that is so, then why haven't massive murders and rapes been reported? In war, people are killed and sometimes forced to move to safer areas, but the Serbs' actions, including rape, massive killing, live burning and "death camps,'' aren't considered normal. Yes, the Serbs are leaving the Muslim-held areas, but, as U.N. reports have noted, most of them are leaving of their own accord, before the Muslim soldiers...
...OBSERVATION THAT "PERHAPS THE Serbs were bad guys but the Bosnian Muslims did their part in the bloody business of the week'' reminded me of Voltaire's account of Candide's war experience [after seeing the destruction in a village belonging to the Abares who had heroically resisted atrocities carried out by the Bulgarians]: "Candide made all the haste he could to another village, which belonged to the Bulgarians, and there he found that the heroic Abares had enacted the same tragedy.'' This great work of 1759 satire might have been fiction, but current news items reveal the same facts...
Meeting at the heavily guarded Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia made limited progress on plans for ending the 42-month-old war in Bosnia. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the U.S. expects Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to be ousted from power shortly; the two have been indicted by an international tribunal as war criminals...