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Even if Bosnia's division into rough halves seems to be accepted, there is still bitter disagreement over what specific areas will be allotted to each side. The peace plan the U.S. has been putting together suggests, for example, that the Bosnian government trade Gorazde, its sole, isolated enclave in the east, for control over all of the capital city of Sarajevo. The Bosnians insist they will never surrender Gorazde, and the Serbs, for their part, demand both Gorazde and a portion of the capital for their republic...
...last month after a Serb mortar shell killed 43 people in Sarajevo. On Aug. 30, the alliance launched heavy attacks on Serb military storage areas, ammunition plants, missile sites and radar and communications centers around Sarajevo, the Serbs' capital of Pale and other parts of Bosnia. NATO then warned Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic that he had to pull his heavy weapons back from the city and give the U.N. freedom of movement or face major punishment from the air. After a pause to see if Mladic had decided to comply, the attacks began again last week. Wave after wave...
Nevertheless, NATO officials stoutly deny that they are participants in the war. They are trying to calibrate their air attacks carefully enough to permit them to claim that they are still peacemakers and are not fighting Mladic's Bosnian Serb army. "I do not consider myself to be taking sides," says Admiral Leighton Smith, the NATO commander in the region. The 300 or so artillery pieces and tanks ringing Sarajevo--the weapons Mladic has been told to pull back from the 12.5-mile-wide U.N. exclusion zone around the city--have not been targeted. For now, that would...
...ACCORD IN BOSNIA... Bosnia, Croatia and Yugo slavia--the latter acting for the Bosnian Serbs--reached an agreement that maintains Bosnia's territorial integrity but creates a separate Bosnian Serb state within its borders. The talks, held in Geneva, were "an important milestone in the search for peace," said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Further negotiations on the deal, which gives the aggressor Serbs a full 49% of Bosnia, are to resume this week...
Unfortunately, the agreement made no mention of a cease-fire, and as the Bosnian Serbs failed to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...