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...Bosnian Serbs wanted to just say no. They did not intend to accept the U.S-European proposal for partitioning war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time they preferred not to proclaim themselves the main obstacle to peace. So after two days of secret discussions last week, the Serbs' self- appointed legislature in Pale sent a written reply, coyly sealed in a pink envelope, to the international mediators in Geneva. It turned out to be a no masquerading as a maybe: without giving a straight answer, the Serbs called for "further work" on the proposed map and other issues...
...last-ditch peace effort offered by the so-called contact group of the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and Germany. Under their rules, hedging was unacceptable, and the two sides were expected to take the plan or leave it. When the proposal was presented to the Muslim-led Bosnian government and the Serb rebels on July 6, it came with an ultimatum: if they turned it down, they would be punished. The Bosnian government signed on without conditions. But the Serbs, who have never met a peace plan they liked, coolly called the bluff. Foreign ministers of the five would...
...Bosnian Serbs said they would cut off commercial and civilian traffic going in and out of Sarajevo tomorrow-- returning the city to its crippled, besieged state of a few months back. The Serbs claimed they had to impose new strictures to stop Muslims from smuggling arms into Sarajevo. To insiders, however, it looks more like a test of the West's resolve, following the Serbs' rejection of a peace plan backed by the U.S., Russia and much of Western Europe. "The Serbs know that if the West doesn't do anything about Sarajevo, it won't do anything to force...
...Bosnian Muslims followed the Serbs' lead, and deep-sixed the latest proposal for peace in former Yugoslavia. Since the Bosnian Serbs are being held responsible for defeating the peace plan in the first place, it's up to the West to decide how to punish them--and all the options threaten to lead to another round of bloody fighting in the region. "The West is now backed into a corner, and it has to act," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief James Graff. In another ominous sign, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry was forced to cancel plans to visit Sarajevo...
...BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Lingering doubts about the fairness of the U.N.-sponsored -- and U.S.-supported -- arms embargo in the Balkan war prompted the fourth Senate proposal since May to lift the ban on shipments of weapons to the beleaguered Bosnians. Fifty Senators voted for the measure, but the other 50 opposed it, which, in the case of an amendment to a bill, counts as a defeat of the measure. A similar bill passed in the House, 244 to 178, on June...