Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials hoped the seclusion would force the antagonists to talk to one another. It seemed to work. Milosevic was spotted one evening chatting up a senior Bosnian official at Packe's, a sports bar on the base. Such informal contacts were greatly aided by dozens of U.S. mapmakers, constitutional lawyers and military strategists. Those advisers held so many impromptu meetings that the living quarters swiftly began to resemble a college dorm during finals week, with diplomats gathering on the fly to thrash out issues big and small. At the center of it all was Clinton's special envoy...
...With the Bosnian peace talks moving into their critical stage, Secretary of State Warren Christopher is going to Dayton to help keep the negotiations on track. "They're slogging through the talks now," reports TIME's Douglas Waller, "and hope to get an agreement on the Bosnian/Croatian federation by the end of week. That's a very important part of these talks -- and there's still a lot of haggling between Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic -- but that's minor compared to the difficulties in sorting out the Bosnian/Serb agreement. That's hung up on things...
...became more forceful about finding an answer. Then there was a crucial meeting in London that resulted in a shift of authority on the ground from the U.N. to NATO. Finally in August, the Croats launched a scorching offensive on the Serbs in the Krajina region, and the Croat-Bosnian federation attacked the Serbs in northwestern Bosnia. The Bosnian Serbs lost more and more ground, and in late September they were ready to deal...
...mean being subjected to the diplomat's badgering; Holbrooke's staff jokes that the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire just to get him to shut up for a while. Nonetheless, the approach paid off in a lightning series of agreements: Aug. 30, Milosevic announced he had the Bosnian Serbs' accord to negotiate for them; Sept. 8, broad settlement was reached on constitutional principles for a new Bosnia; Sept. 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo and allow U.N. access; Oct. 5, a cease-fire agreement that seemed finally to have taken hold...
With a meeting in Moscow postponed by Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake...