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...completely rearranged the balance of strengths and fears in the Balkans. The Serbs have now suffered their first terrible defeat, and Milosevic's failure to come to the aid of the Krajina has caused bitterness among both his own people and the vengeful refugees flowing into Serbia. The Bosnian Muslims are both better off and worse off than they were before: the Croats, with whom they are allied, have dealt their enemy a serious blow; the Croats have also liberated Bihac, a Bosnian town that the Serbs besieged for 1,201 days; at the same time, however, the Muslims...
According to a Pentagon source, the outlines of the initiative are as follows. The Bosnian Serbs would be allowed to keep the 70% of Bosnia that they now control; the remaining 30% would be reserved for a Muslim government. This would be a big change: the current plan endorsed by the "Contact Group"--the U.S., France, Britain, Germany and Russia--and accepted by the Muslims calls for a 51%-49% split in the Muslims' favor. "We're selling out to the battlefield reality," the Pentagon official conceded. However, sources at the State Department insist that the plan is more generous...
...plan would leave the Bosnian Muslims with Sarajevo, the central core of Bosnia, the Bihac pocket and the area near Krajina. Gorazde, the remaining "safe area" in the east that NATO pledged itself to protect three weeks ago, would probably be allowed to pass into the hands of the Bosnian Serbs. The Muslims would be offered military training and arms, as well as a significant commitment of U.S. ground troops and air power to protect their boundaries from Serb encroachment. The ground troops, up to 25,000 of them, would be "peace enforcers" with liberal rules of engagement. They would...
...problem for the new U.S. approach is that the Bosnian Muslim army is feeling emboldened. "Now we will start real war," General Atif Dudakvic declared after his Fifth Corps lashed out at the Bosnian Serbs and in two days last week recaptured all the territory it had lost during the Serbs' July offensive. And then there are the Muslims' suspicions of the Croats. Right now the Muslims and the Croats in Bosnia have a federation, but only two years ago they were fighting bitterly, and Bosnians are worried that Tudjman and Milosevic have crafted a secret deal to divide Bosnia...
...have changed, and he seems to be bending over backward to assure the Muslims that his interests no longer conflict with theirs. Last week, for example, Tudjman turned down an invitation from Boris Yeltsin to meet with him and Milosevic for a peace conference. Tudjman refused to go because Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic was not invited...