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...fair assessment because any step toward peace in the agonizing 41-month-long Bosnian war is significant and hard won. But the search for an actual settlement is still likely to be a long one. Even as the diplomats put the final touches on their agreement, NATO warplanes were blasting Serb military targets in Bosnia for the second straight week. And the principles the parties were able to agree on in Switzerland could sink under the weight of the many issues on which they disagree...
While the Serbs, Croats and Muslims have all accepted the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its present borders, they have also approved dividing it in some undefined way into "two entities," one a Bosnian Serb republic and the other the Muslim-Croat federation. According to the statement of principles, the split will be based on the long-standing proposal put forward by the team of international negotiators called the Contact Group: 49% of Bosnia to go to the Serbs and 51% to the existing federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats...
...proportions may, however, be "adjusted" if the sides can agree on how to do it. In addition, each of the ethnic entities has the right to establish "special relationships" with neighboring countries. That covers Bosnia's ties to Croatia and allows for a linkage between the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia proper. What kind of links they will be will have to be thrashed out in future negotiations; they might yet lead to the creation of a Greater Serbia...
...Muslim-Croats seized in the past three days brought the division of land the two sides now control even closer to the 51-49 split agreed to in the negotiations," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. Before the NATO offensive, Waller notes, Serbs held approximately 70 percent of Bosnian territory. Pentagon officials tell Waller that Croat-Muslim forces now hold a significantly greater chunk of Bosnia. "Thursday, the CIA and Pentagon had revised their percentages for what the sides held to 55 percent for the Bosnian Serbs and 45 percent for the Muslim-Croats. Today, Pentagon officials...
...food stared at the sky and debated the latest events. "This is the beginning of the end of the war," said Zaim Alic, 48. But his friend Vahida Fazlagic, 64, interrupted him bitterly. She was driven from her home in Grbavica, a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo, by Bosnian Serb forces. "NATO has been bombing the Serb positions. So what? That doesn't hurt them, they are sitting in their bunkers. NATO should bomb Pale [the Bosnian Serb stronghold near Sarajevo] to show them what it is like to have a massacre like we had on Monday...