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What Holbrooke's rough cartography captured was nothing less than the changing face of the battle for the heartland of Bosnia, which in recent weeks has seen the Bosnian Serbs driven back by the loosely coordinated armies of the country's Croat-Muslim federation capitalizing on NATO's bombing campaign. The results of that offensive--demarcated on Holbrooke's map--produced a strategic shift on the ground that, working with the grain of U.S. diplomacy, opened the most inviting window of opportunity for peace that Bosnia has seen in years. By the time the Bosnian Serbs had withdrawn most...
Left to fend for themselves and hampered by the temporary absence of their relentless military commander Ratko Mladic, who was in the hospital reportedly being treated for gallstones, it was not until late in the week that the Bosnian Serb forces finally appeared to stiffen their defenses along a wide arc surrounding Banja Luka. By that time, however, the Croat-Muslim attack had already touched off an exodus of more than 85,000 Bosnian Serb refugees. Many, like Branko Japundja, 50, a wounded Serb farmer who left the hospital where he was recuperating and walked all night to escort...
...PEACE THROUGH BOMBING'' CAMPAIGN is destroying what could have been America's most significant contribution to a resolution of the conflict. A "peace'' externally imposed by military force upon the Bosnian Serbs will never hold. Those who think otherwise understand neither the Serbs nor the history of the Balkans. The Serb aspiration to be united and free is as rightful as was the aspiration of the two Germanys to be united. The same goes for the Croats and the Muslims. An equitable partition mutually agreed upon is the only answer. Stop the bombing. Call for an all-parties cease-fire...
...SHOULD BE PROTECTING INNOCENT Serb civilians just as we should protect the Bosnian Muslim civilians, no more no less. If not, the U.S. may someday be accused of crimes against humanity. Remember Vietnam. VLADISLAV A. TOMOVIC Williamsville, New York...
...State Department's Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. His relationship with Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake was rocky, and Wall Street, where he had carved out a 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...