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...calculus had changed. Since May 1992, Yugoslavia has been chafing under economic sanctions imposed by the U.N. For months Milosevic had been trying to make some deal to get those sanctions lifted. Discussions of such a deal have hinged on Milosevic's willingness and ability to make his Bosnian Serb clients negotiate a peace. Always more of an opportunist than a true nationalist, Milosevic has for some time appeared willing to sell out his brethren Serbs for the sake of unshackling himself from sanctions...
...Either you join with me and we do it together," he reportedly told the Bosnian Serbs when they met, "or the deal gets done anyway, without you." As the document Milosevic showed Holbrooke attested, the Bosnian Serbs had capitulated, effectively signing their negotiating authority over to him. In Karadzic's case, the decision reflected his growing political weakness; in Mladic's, it was simply a reaffirmation of his close ties to Milosevic. What is interesting about this breakthrough, if indeed that is what it turns out to be, is that it was not triggered by NATO's air strikes. While...
...includes a number of specific proposals. The No. 1 problem is the map, the division of which is predicated on the principle, established last July by the Contact Group, that Bosnia will technically remain one nation but will be internally divided, with 49% of the land going to the Bosnian Serbs and 51% going to the Croat-Muslim federation. While it now appears that all parties, including the Bosnian Serbs, have agreed to the proportions, Holbrooke said that everyone has a different version of which land goes to whom...
...main sticking points include the fate of Gorazde, the remaining enclave that the Bosnian government holds in the east. It is the "safe area" that the London meeting vowed in particular to protect, but it would be isolated in Serb territory. Another potential stumbling block concerns partitioning Sarajevo to allow the Serbs to control a part of the capital. The Bosnian Serbs made this a condition of their turning over negotiating authority to Milosevic, but the Bosnian government rules...
Croatia has reportedly backed the overall deal, but now that the Bosnian Serbs'have been hurt militarily, Bosnia's Muslims may be less willing to accept a plan that calls for de facto partition of their country. Might this not be the time to fight on and regain lost ground? "They're going to have to swallow hard to sign up to the deal," says a Pentagon official. As encouragement, the White House wants to provide American economic incentives for the region that could total as much as $1 billion over three years, $500 million of which may be earmarked...