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Protesters were critical of Boutros-Ghali's policies during the three-year-old ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. They charged that the U.N. has mediated the conflict rather than moving to punish Serbian aggressors as they attacked Bosnian cities...
...protesters hailed mainly from local Bosnian relief groups and proBosnia organizations, although a few Harvard students joined the rally...
Even before Secretary of State Warren Christopher traveled to Brussels to reiterate U.S. commitment to the Contact Group plan -- which would give 51% of Bosnia's territory to a federation of Bosnia's Croats and Muslims and 49% to the Bosnian Serbs -- the Pentagon was urging Clinton to cut his losses and compromise with the Serbs. Aides to Secretary of Defense William Perry warned him that NATO was being torn apart over Bosnia, and the Administration's demands for air strikes on Bihac had only deepened the rift. The Joint Chiefs of Staff advised that no military threats from NATO...
...this led Perry to arrive at the White House Monday with a position paper advocating an "illusion-free Bosnia policy" that would "stop advancing proposals we know the allies will . . . reject." Among its directives: tell the Bosnian government "that they will have to accept less" territory than the 51% awarded them by the Contact Group; drop any thought of lifting the arms embargo; and accept a confederation of the Bosnian and Croatian Serbs and Belgrade. The Defense Secretary publicly floated the confederation idea the next morning, as newspapers trumpeted a major reversal in U.S. policy...
...Bosnian Serbs today fired rockets at a United Nations vehicle in the Bihac area, wounding four peacekeepers. The soldiers -- taken to hospitals in Zagreb, Croatia -- were part of the contingent of 1,200 poorly equipped Bangladeshis in Bihac who are completely surrounded by advancing Serb forces. Croatian Serbs sent guided missiles at the U.N. armed personnel carrier; when other U.N. troops tried to rescue the soldiers, they came under sniper fire. But as they blew hot in Bihac, Serbs allowed the first fuel shipment in weeks to reach U.N. forces in Sarajevo.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...